Revised and Expanded Edition
Paperback
Publication Date: 06/03/2012
This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race, including a chapter on race and intelligence. These new chapters show the radically different views of race prevailing among the intelligentsia at the beginning of the twentieth century and at the end- and yet how each of these opposite views of race had the same dogmatic quality and the same refusal to countenance differing opinions among their contemporaries, much less engage dissenting opinions in serious debate. Moreover, each of these very different views of race produced flourishes of rhetoric and travesties of logic, leading to dire social consequences, though of very different sorts in the two eras. Other additions to this edition include a critique of John Rawls' conception or justice and a re-examination of the so-called "trickle-down theory" behind "tax cuts for the rich." There are other revisions, from the preface to the final chapter, the latter being extensively rewritten to bring together and highlight the themes of the other chapters, and to make unmistakably clear what Intellectuals and Society is, and is not, seeking to do.
- ISBN:
- 9780465025220
- 9780465025220
- Category:
- Public opinion & polls
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 06-03-2012
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Basic Books
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 680
- Dimensions (mm):
- 254x164x50mm
- Weight:
- 0.73kg
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