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Men of Ideas

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ISBN-10: 0029067707

ISBN-13: 9780029067703

Edition: 1970

Authors: Lewis A. Coser

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Lewis A. Coser takes readers from the coffeehouses of 18th-century London to the mass-culture industries of today in search of a definition for "the intellectual". Describing the settings where intellectuals thrive and exploring the nature and contributions of various well-known groups, he discusses the various roles intellectuals play in society and why they matter.
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Book details

List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 1970
Publisher: Free Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 374
Weight: 0.132
Language: English

Preface to the First Paperback Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Introduction
The French Rococo Salon
D'Holbach and Helvetius
Coffeehouses in Eighteenth-Century London
The Royal Society and the Rise of Modern Science
The Profession of Letters in Eighteenth-Century England
The Widening Reading Public
Booksellers and Authors
Circulating Libraries
The Commercialization of Literature
The Commercialization of Writing: Four Cases from Nineteenth-Century England
Walter Scott
William M. Thackeray
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
British Nineteenth-Century Reviews
Censorship
Political Censorship: Pre-Revolutionary France
Moral Censorship: The Victorian Era in America
The Political Sect: The Saint-Simonians
Literary Bohemia: The Early Years of Greenwich Village
The Little Magazine: The Masses and The Little Review
The Masses
The Little Review
Introduction
Intellectuals in Power
Boring from Within
Legitimizing Power
Critics of Power
Salvation Abroad
Intellectuals in Power
The Jacobin Intellectuals or the Politics of Virtue
The Bolsheviks: Intellectuals as Professional Revolutionaries
Boring from Within
The Fabians: Intelligence Officers without an Army
The Brain Trust Courts Power
Legitimizing Power
Napoleon and the Ideologues
Gomulka and the Revisionists
Critics of Power
The Abolitionists
The Dreyfusards
Salvation Abroad
Rage for Order: The Philosophes' Love Affair with China and Russia
Riding the Wave of the Future in the Thirties
Introduction
Intellectual Types and Institutional Settings
The Scene and Prospect Before Us: Two Contrasting Perspectives
America as a Bureaucratized Mass Society: The Obsolescence of the Intellectual
America as a Pluralistic Society: Sanguine Prospects for Superior Culture
Unattached Intellectuals
Academic Intellectuals
The University Today
The University as a Setting for Intellectuals
Career Pressures and the Departmentalization of Knowledge
Time Pressures
Skill versus Cultivation
The Consultant Role of Academic Men
Research Entrepreneurship
Bureaucratic Impediments
Prospects
Scientific Intellectuals
The Professional Role of the Scientist
The New Public Role of the Scientist
The Prospect for Scientific Intellectuals
Intellectuals in Washington
The Intellectual as a Civil Servant
The Intellectual as an Ad Hoc Bureaucrat
Intellectuals in the Mass-Culture Industries
The Movie Industry
The Weekly Mass-Circulation Magazines
Foundations as Gatekeepers of Contemporary Intellectual Life
Summing Up
Fragmentation and Diversification
Concentration and Absorption
Absorption, Alienation, or Detached Concern?
Index
Subject Index
Name Index