New York Intellect

A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time
Erscheinungsjahr 1988
ISBN: 978-0-8018-3639-8
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

New York Intellect is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles of thought and writing that reflect the special character of the city, its boundless energies and deep divisions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bender, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue: New York City and the Condition of Intellect
Part I: Civic Culture
Chapter 1. The Emergence of City
Chapter 2. Patricians and Artisans
Chapter 3. A University of the City
Part II: Literary Culture
Chapter 4. Toward a Metropolitan Sensibility
Chapter 5. The Metropolitan Gentry: Culture Against Politics
Chapter 6. The Modern Literary Intellectual
Part III: Academic Culture
Chapter 7. A Metropolitan University
Chapter 8. Professors as Intellectuals
Part IV: An International Capital of Culture
Chapter 9. Refiguration
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Bender, Thomas
Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time; Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States; and Community and Social Change in America; all published by Johns Hopkins.

Thomas Bender is a professor of history at New York University.