Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945

by Steven Biel

Book Overview

A new intellectual community came together in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s, a community outside the universities, the professions and, in general, the established centers of intellectual life. A generation of young intellectuals was increasingly challenging both the genteel tradition and the growing division of intellectual labor. Adversarial and anti-professional, they exhibited a hostility to boundaries and specialization that compelled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814712320
• ISBN13: 9780814712320
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"