Richard Hofstadter
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Hofstadter was a Columbia University historian and public intellectual who used ideas from social psychology to explain American political history.
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 6 Aug 1916, Buffalo, New York (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 24 Oct 1970, Mount Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, of leukaemia, aged 54 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: University at Buffalo; PhD, Columbia (1942) (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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5 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Anti-intellectualism is resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind and those who represent it (opens korrents.com)
“The common strain that binds together the attitudes and ideas which I call anti-intellectual is a resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind and of those who are considered to represent it; and a disposition…”
- Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege (opens korrents.com)
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Practicality is not the essence of the intellectual's interest in ideas (opens korrents.com)
“However, practicality is not the essence of his interest in ideas.”
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Anti-intellectualism is resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind and those who represent it (opens korrents.com)