The House of IntellectIn this international bestseller, originally published in 1959, Jacques Barzun, acclaimed author of From Dawn to Decadence, takes on the whole intellectual -- or pseudo-intellectual -- world, attacking it for its betrayal of Intellect. "Intellect is despised and neglected," Barzun says, "yet intellectuals are well paid and riding high." He details this great betrayal in such areas as public administrations, communications, conversation and home life, education, business, and scholarship. In this edition's new Preface, Jacques Barzun discussess the intense -- and controversial -- reaction the world had to The House of Intellect. |
Contents
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The Public Mind and Its Caterers | 32 |
Conversation Manners and the Home | 62 |
Education Without Instruction | 91 |
Instruction Without Authority | 120 |
The Case Against Intellect | 150 |
The Folklore of Philanthropy | 180 |
Philanthropic Businessmen and Bureaucrats | 205 |
The Language of Learning and of Pedantry | 223 |
The Summing Up | 259 |
An Additional Note to Chapter V | 273 |
Reference Notes | 279 |
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