Research Catalog

Title

The intellectuals and the powers, and other essays [by] Edward Shils.

Author

Shils, Edward, 1910-1995

Publication

Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1972]

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Description

xiii, 481 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• Selected papers of Edward Shils, 1
• Shils, Edward, 1910-1995. Essays. Selections 1.

Subject

• Intellectuals
• Cultural Characteristics
• Social Responsibility
• Psychological Distance
• Politics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

INTELLECTUALS -- The Intellectuals and the Powers: Some Perspectives for Comparative Analysis -- Ideology -- Ideology and Civility -- The Traditions of Intellectual Life: Their Conditions of Existence and Growth in Contemporary Societies -- INTELLECTUALS IN MODERN SOCIETIES -- The High Culture of the Age -- British Intellectuals in the Mid-Twentieth Century -- Intellectuals and the Center of Society in the United States -- Freedom and Influence: Observations on the Scientists' Movement in the United States -- The Scientific Community: Thoughts after Hamburg -- The Intellectuals and the Future -- Mass Society and its Culture -- Daydreams and Nightmares: Reflections on the Criticisms of Mass Culture -- Plentitude and Scarcity: The Anatomy of an International Cultural Crisis -- Observations on the American University -- Limitations on the Freedom of Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences -- INTELLECTUALS IN UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES -- Toward a Modern Intellectual Community in the New States -- Metropolis and Province in the Intellectual Community -- Asian Intellectuals -- Intellectuals in the Political Development of the New States -- Intellectuals, Public Opinion, and Economic Development -- Demagogues and Cadres in the Political Development of the New States -- Scientific Development in the New States -- Color, the Universal Intellectual Community, and the Afro-Asian Intellectual.

ISBN

0226753158

LCCN

^^^79178196^

OCLC

• 2780798
• SCSB-11485853

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library