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The house of intellect / Jacques Barzun.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1978, c1959.Description: viii, 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780060102302
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001/B28 1959
LOC classification:
  • AZ221 .B3 1959
Summary: In 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.
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Books Books Foundation University Library Circulation 001/B28 1959 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 47227

Reprint of the ed. published by Harper, New York.
Includes bibliographical references.

In 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.

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