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The War against the Intellect : Episodes in the Decline of Discourse
author
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Shaw, Peter.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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0877452407
print isbn13
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9780877452409
ebook isbn13
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9781587292187
language
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English
subject
United States--Intellectual life--20th century, American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Criticism--United States--History--20th century.
publication date
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1989
lcc
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E169.12.S47 1989eb
ddc
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973.92
subject
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United States--Intellectual life--20th century, American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Criticism--United States--History--20th century.
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The War Against the Intellect
Episodes in the Decline of Discourse
Peter Shaw
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1989 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Second paperback printing, 1990
Typesetting by G&S Typesetters, Austin, Texas Printing and binding by Thomson-Shore, Dexter, Michigan
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shaw, Peter, 1936 The war against the intellect: episodes in the decline of discourse/by Peter Shaw.1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-87745-230-X, ISBN 0-87745-240-7 (pbk.) 1. United StatesIntellectual life20th century. 2. American literature History and criticismTheory, etc. 3. CriticismUnited StatesHistory 20th century. I. Title. E169.12.S47 198988-32115 973.92dc19CIP
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TO MY SON, STEVEN
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
The American Heritage
The American Heritage and Its Guardians
3
Ezra Pound on American History
25
Literary Criticism
The Decline of Criticism
43
The Politics of Deconstruction
56
Feminist Literary Criticism
67
American Literature
Literary Scholarship and Disparaging American Culture
91
Civilization's Malcontents: Responses to Typee
104
The Decline of Standards
Plagiarism and the Literary Conscience
123
The Demotion of Man
138
The Dark Age of the Humanities
155
Epllogue
The Academic Assault on Allan Bloom
173
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
My thanks to the magazine editors who were willing to print my essays even though they were likely to bring letters of protest, and who in several cases helped me clarify my arguments and improve my style: George Core of Sewanee Review, Joseph Epstein of the American Scholar, Norman Podhoretz and Neal Kozodoy of Commentary, Hilton Kramer of the New Criterion, Lewis Lapham of Harper's, William Phillips of Partisan Review, and Gregory Wolfe of Intercollegiate Review. Thanks, too, to my personal editors, Penelope Shaw and Steven Shaw; to Susan Thompson, E. D. Hirsch, and James N. Jordan for their readings of individual essays; and to Jacques Barzun for his invaluable close scrutiny of the entire manuscript.
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INTRODUCTION
The intellectual climate of our time has undergone a subtle alteration in the past twenty years. Starting in the 1960s a change came over the rules of discourse whereby the marshaling of logic and evidence gradually lost its prestige. In its place right feeling and good intentions came to reign as the highest intellectual values and the most persuasive earnests of high seriousness. It became common, for example, for writers to reassure their readers that they were particularly sensitive to the problems of ethnicity or poverty or disease or any other lamentable status or condition. The spirit of the 1960s, which favored the heart over the head, was making itself felt across the spectrum of argumentative writing and scholarship. This was the war against the intellect.
The war was never explicitly declared, nor was it perceived to be under way by the guardians of culturescholars and intellectuals. My own realization that something had changed came after my return to teaching at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1970, following a year away from higher education. In response to resolutions against the Vietnam War and racism drawn up by the Black Panther Party and approved by the Yale University faculty, a faculty meeting was called at Stony Brook. The meeting took place immediately after the shootings of students at Kent State University, at a time when it was not yet clear exactly what had happened there. The overriding feeling, though, was that the Stony Brook faculty ought to issue some kind of resolution. To my surprise, with little discussion its members adopted the Black Panther resolutions despite their limited relevance to the situation at hand.
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