New York Intellect

A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time

Häftad, Engelska, 1988

AvThomas Bender,New York University) Bender, Thomas (Professor Emeritus

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New York Intellect is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles of thought and writing that reflect the special character of the city, its boundless energies and deep divisions.

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Utgivningsdatum1988-04-26
Mått156 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor448
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801836398

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CoverOther Books by This AuthorTitle PageCopyrightDedicationEpigraphAcknowledgmentsPrefacePrologue: New York City and the Condition of IntellectPart I: Civic CultureChapter 1. The Emergence of City Chapter 2. Patricians and ArtisansChapter 3. A University of the CityPart II: Literary CultureChapter 4. Toward a Metropolitan SensibilityChapter 5. The Metropolitan Gentry: Culture Against PoliticsChapter 6. The Modern Literary IntellectualPart III: Academic CultureChapter 7. A Metropolitan UniversityChapter 8. Professors as IntellectualsPart IV: An International Capital of CultureChapter 9. RefigurationNotes

Remarkable history-superb in research, insight, and interpretation... The book is full of fascinations. New Yorker A model of cultural history... [Bender] makes his case for New York with the conviction that he knows what is genuinely distinctive and valuable in the life of a great city and that his view of the matter is not only true to the reality of its history but important to those who hold democratic ideals. New York Times Book Review