The Last Intellectuals by Russell Jacoby
American Culture in the Age of the University
Argues that American intellectual life has been hollowed out by the professionalization of scholarship and the absorption of public critics into the safe, specialized world of the university; tracing changes across the twentieth century, it shows how credentialism, jargon, careerism, and institutional incentives have narrowed debate and replaced public, polemical engagement with inward-looking academic research. The book laments the loss of broadly read, morally serious cultural critics and calls for a recovery of independent, accessible, socially engaged criticism outside narrow disciplinary confines.
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- 1987
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