The Decline of the City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049179 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean Bethke Elshtain (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 1987 |
| Issue | 73 |
| Pages | 180-181 |
| Publication date | 1987-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0987073180 |
| OpenAlex | W1992578551 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Jacoby has written a book, at odds with itself. His introductory chapter is excessively apologetic in multiplying caveats and trying to avoid a narrowly-geared polemic that is overly strident in attacking everyone who is not C. Wright Mills. He hints at a transformed project not so narrowly geared to academic disciplines, while insisting that the social world needed to sustain public intellectuals of the sort he values no longer exists and may never reappear. What saves the book from the aloofness that characterizes Alan Bloom's bestselling The Closing of the American Mind is Jacoby's critical acuity and populist instincts. The “academitization” of scholarship is an old story. The implications of this process have been hotly debated, Jacoby's book being the latest in a long line of laments
Art history · Closing (real estate · Instinct · Media studies · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Wright · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1991 - 2009 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |