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Anti-intellectualism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This kind of anti-intellectualism is common in the United States and in an extreme form was embodied by Joseph McCarthy, the fanatically anti-Communist senator from Wisconsin. The term 'intellectual' implies knowledge, wisdom, and intelligence, and thus to be called 'anti-intellectual' can often be perceived as meaning one favours ignorance or stupidity. Thus, often violent anti-intellectual backlashes are common during the rise and rule of oppressive political movements, such fascism, communism and theocracy. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-intellectualism   (4685 words)

Barbelith Underground > Head Shop > Intellectuals / Anti-Intellectualism Academia as I see it is one aspect or maybe style of intellectualism, but it's not the only one. People who indulge in intellectual pursuits are wasting time chasing insubstantial, wishy-washy pleasures. I believe intellectuals have an important part to play in society but the secret is to find ways of communicating with others is the key to defusing thier anxieties and encourage intellectuals to be more human or at least demonstrate not all are inhuman. www.barbelith.com /topic.php?id=956   (5230 words)

The Chronicle: 12/08/2000: The Renaissance of Anti-Intellectualism Even into the Johnson administration, the White House ceremonially invited intellectuals and high artists to visit, culminating in the public-relations disaster of a White House festival of the arts, in 1965, that was boycotted by some writers and artists while others circulated an antiwar petition at the event. Hofstadter had made much of the distinction between critical intellectuals (suspected, sometimes justifiably, of being ideologues) and expert intellectuals ("on tap, not on top," in the terms of the early atomic scientists), but thanks to the postmodern mood of the intervening decades, many experts had come to be tarred with the same brush as ideologues. Like many intellectuals, Hofstadter was disturbed by the general disdain for "eggheads," haunted by Joseph McCarthy's thuggish assault on Dean Acheson and his Anglophilic ways, and dismayed by Eisenhower's taste for Western novels and his tangled syntax (which was not yet understood to be, at least sometimes, not simply incompetent but deliberately evasive). chronicle.com /free/v47/i15/15b00701.htm   (2696 words)

Republicans and Anti-Intellectualism TPMCafe I would still argue that anti- intellectualism was a significant factor in Republican politics in 1952 and 1956 (albeit less so than later on); Eisenhower was no dummy in reality, but he projected a kind of dim affability that stood in sharp contrast with Stevenson (to the Republicans' advantage). For more than 50 years the Republicans have campaigned on anti- intellectualism, courting the massive bloc of voters too insecure to want a president any smarter than they are. Conservatism at its root is anti- intellectual because the unifying emotion concerns the desire to keep what one has thus the defense of the status quo and the fear of change. www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/12/29/12032/023   (8656 words)

Muck and Mystery: Blue Anti-Intellectualism They are fat, dumb and lazy due to lack of intellectual exercise, not only unaware of contrary ideas but also a bit dim about their own. The solution is an intellectual climate in which the worst tendencies of group psychology are neutralized... They have never actually thought about their dogmas and are simply frozen when confronted with the intellectual agility of opponents with well exercised arguments. www.garyjones.org /mt/archives/000107.html   (1762 words)

Someplace Somewhere - Anti-intellectualism in America Much of the early intellectual discourse of Christianity was shaped by Platonist ideas and was done by Platonist and other philosophers trained in classical Greek intellectualism. Intellectual thought and thus intellectuals are commonly connected with this. Intellectuals tend to be shrugged off as fighting for an unrealistic cause. www.someplacesomewhere.com /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14366   (3240 words)

Muck and Mystery: Anti-Intellectualism Arguable, potentially fair, etc. It's another thing to say categorically that there is no such thing as anti-intellectualism in the history or contemporary culture of the United States. Hofstader was hardly a callow intellectual protecting his "sick" privileges, and yet, you take the history he meticulously and rather neutrally documents and just say, "Bunk, bull, and crap: never happened, no such thing". You have this tendency to make sweeping gestures of authoritative negation on such claims, and while those gestures might be reasonable responses to callow sloganeering, they're not in the least bit fair to significant bodies of research and investigation. www.garyjones.org /mt/archives/000104.html   (2354 words)

Deep thinkers missing in action csmonitor.com Some at Princeton aren't so quick to dismiss the idea that there may be a problem of anti-intellectualism by omission. But while the US university system is widely hailed for its quality, some fear the pendulum may be swinging toward an overall anti- intellectual approach. In the face of such criticism, some observers caution that it would be a mistake to believe there was ever a "golden age" of intellectualism on campus. www.csmonitor.com /2003/0121/p17s02-lehl.htm   (1831 words)

AHA Information: Merle Curti Presidential Address (1954) Among the better educated who hold to more liberal tenets, and even among the best educated, there are varying degrees of hostility toward, and fear of, those intellectuals who “make a God of science.”15 But in view of the secularization of American culture, religion is probably no longer a major source of anti-intellectualism. Intellectuals have been blamed by their fellows as well as by ordinary people for being indifferent or hostile to the struggles of the common man for a greater measure of social justice. In turn, many intellectuals were also disillusioned when they found that trade unions did not always observe the canons of democracy, that the movement was spotted with intra-power struggles, and that it was more concerned with wages than with social justice in the broad sense. www.historians.org /info/AHA_History/mcurti.htm   (10220 words)

Academe: Anti-Intellectualism in American Media: Magazines and Higher Education Though there are important differences between the two books, Clausscn's empirical discussion treats types of anti-intellectualism that can be traced directly to Hofstadter's work: religious antirationalism, populist antielitism, and unreflective instrumentalism, or the tendency to value thought only for its practical or material yield. Given the title of the book, it comes as no surprise that Claussen finds antiintellectualism to be one of the defining themes of these portrayals. Another major theme in media coverage of higher education is populist antielitism, which Claussen traces from the 194Os through today, a period in which colleges and universities experienced dramatic increases in the enrollment of nonelite students who were less prepared fur college than their elite peers. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3860/is_200409/ai_n9440968   (849 words)

Amazon.com: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Vintage): Books: Richard Hofstadter And while the anti-intellectuals in the fifties may have railed against "eggheads," today the GOP directs much of their fury against the "liberal elite." Since most of "the elite" is dirt poor financially, clearly they are aiming their guns at the intellectual elite. The intellectuals' education and expertise are viewed as a form of power or privilege. Intellectuals are seen as a small arrogant elite who are pretentious, conceited, snobbish. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394703170?v=glance   (1854 words)

Rationally Speaking May 2001 - The many faces of anti-intellectualism The idea that intellectual pursuits are a lot of work and that it is far easier and more pleasurable to watch TV is the fourth kind of anti-intellectualism, unreflective hedonism. One can be anti-intellectual also by rejecting intellectualism because it is elitist. The most pernicious kind of anti-intellectualism comes from other intellectuals. www.atheistfoundation.org.au /rs10.htm   (1121 words)

Mormon Anti-Intellectualism: A Reply - FARMS Review Something as multi-faceted as Mormonism across more than a century of time is neither intellectual nor anti-intellectual. Questions of "intellectuality," or the church's attitude toward intellectual endeavor, did not begin in 1966. In writing to the Corinthians, Paul, himself an intellectual, had earlier drawn the line between the gospel and the wisdom of this world (see 1 Corinthians 1:20). farms.byu.edu /display.php?table=review&id=387   (1196 words)

Education Policy Analysis Archives: Vol. 1 No. 6 Howley "Anti-Iintellectualism in U.S. Schools Evidence of teachers' intellectualism would demonstrate their capacity to take on such a project and might, in fact, indicate their role in promoting school outcomes that subvert--rather than support--the cultural reproduction that schooling intends. Research about the intellectual characteristics of teachers is, therefore, important to our understanding of the ways in which schools promote or suppress the development of intellect. But even if research demonstrated that most teachers were not intellectuals and that schooling for most students did not cultivate the intellect, it would still be possible that schools valued intellect enough to cultivate it among an elite few. epaa.asu.edu /epaa/v1n6.html   (10476 words)

Anti-intellectualism in action An example of the first is the staggering failure of the Hindu campaign reclaiming Ayodhya to communicate its case to the world, as already discussed. The most serious consequence of the Sangh's tradition of mindless activism is the second one, the lack of a developed intellectual perspective on the Indian and world situations. In their political analysis, Hindutva activists often use the categor­ies developed by their enemies, and are the prisoners of these categories. koenraadelst.bharatvani.org /books/bjp/section10.html   (1330 words)

LENIN'S TOMB: Anti-intellectualism. An amalgam of constant suspicion, hate, provincial sentimentalism, "all anti-intellectualism ends in the death of language, that is, the destruction of sociality". Philosophically, from the right to the left, the poujadist is essentially an anti-intellectual who attacks intellectuals relentlessly, sadistically. In the writings of Poujade, women and foreigners are compared to a pharisaic species in which the poujadist projects his own image and that he pursues in his vexed nationalism, for the poujadist fears that the intellectual will "eye him scornfully", he who is the ground, origin, root and earth, the guardian and the temple. leninology.blogspot.com /2005/06/anti-intellectualism.html   (231 words)

The Geomblog: Intellectuals and anti-intellectualism An interesting point that it brings out is the connection between postmodern relativism and the democratization of knowledge in the destruction of the intellectual by paradoxically, placing him front and center. A more recent book by Franklin Furedi, 'Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?', discusses the demise of the "intellectual" in modern society (where by 'intellectual' I infer that he means more than an 'academic'. The book was written in 1966 and thus is limited in its analysis of the current state of affairs in this country, but had a number of insightful observations outlining what appeared to be a strong and long-running tradition (much more so that I had realized). geomblog.blogspot.com /2004/09/intellectuals-and-anti-intellectualism.html   (522 words)

Catholicism in *Anti-Intellectualism in American Life* Ask MetaFilter Some of the most intellectually curious, critically thoughtful people I have ever known have been Catholic priests (and they were not in an academic setting). As an ex-Catholic, I'd also say that there is a intellectual American Catholic tradition (most often associated with the Jesuits), but that it's been largely channeled into the academic sphere rather than the public one. If you are interested in the intellectual climate of American Catholicism in the 1950s and 1960s, you should look at the novels and short stories of J.F. Powers. ask.metafilter.com /mefi/16339   (2539 words)

Anti-Intellectualism in Colleges - Global Affairs Forum, Politics, Law, Science, Health Many things are pinned as the reason of any decline in intellectualism and the usual suspects are among them: trends and sports. Intellectualizing course material is so much easier when your student body is tuned to critical thinking. A split where the intellectuals become a "ruling class" over the people who thought partying, drugs, and getting laid were more important than learning. www.globalaffairs.org /forum/showthread.php?t=6779   (3598 words)

Why is there Anti-Intellectualism? First of all, we see a widespread failure by many cultures to explore fully an art medium that their own actions and tastes show is of interest to them. Second, and more critically, other cultures may choose to spend their intellectual energies in other ways, but creativity is defined as generating fundamentally new ideas. Elaborating endless variations on existing themes is creativity in a sense, but not of the same order as coming up with wholly new classes of ideas. www.uwgb.edu /dutchs/PSEUDOSC/WhyAntiInt.htm   (3823 words)

The Bible Archive - What Do Anti-“Anti-Intellectualism”ists Want? Well, is it really the case that Scholars (or anti "anti-intellecualism"-ists as I labeled them in this post) are trying to make the opinion of the non-Scholar void? Quite the scholars, quite the intellectuals, however at no time was I ever meant to feel like an imbecile for not knowing as much as he did. I've noticed that the opinion voiding often comes from younger Scholars and not those that have been entrenched in the study of the Word for years...and yet the concern is raised across age differences. www.biblearchive.com /mambo4_5/content/view/438/65   (1699 words)

Garlic, Vodka, and The Politics of Gender: Anti-intellectualism in American Librarianship [Progressive Librarian] Indeed, it may be one of the favorite occupations of the intellectual classes to show occasionally their anti-intellectualism as a kind of badge of authenticity to the gatekeepers of mass culture. But as Richard Hofstadter pointed out in his famous 1963 book, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, intellectuals sometimes show a fundamental hostility to the life of the mind, even though it is allegedly more common in people of action. No one is startled when executives denounce the study of history as a waste of time, or when politicians ridicule the efforts of scholars to understand human behavior (Shaffer 1977). libr.org /PL/14_Winter.html   (2242 words)

Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) Not only did Augustine hear such anti-intellectual quips, he himself was in the thick of particular intellectual difficulties during his pilgrimage. He reminds her that Paul’s warnings in Colossians 2 are against a this-worldly philosophy, not against the true philosophia [the love of wisdom] of the other, intelligible world.)[23] Although Augustine was misguided by this Enlightenment-like ideal of pursuing pure reason, he preferred this route to that of blind submission to authority. Noll pointed out that modern evangelicals are not known for their rigorous thinking, nor does popular evangelicalism tend to sustain the intellectual life.[2] Such a situation, he pointed out, has practical implications. www.rzim.org /publications/essay_arttext.php?id=1   (2290 words)

Commentary Magazine - Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, by Richard Hofstadter ...Indeed, even the progressive educators who have carried the attack on intellectualism to its furthest possible limits must be regarded as part of the American tradition and as themselves intellectuals, even though debased ones... ...This trust in a natural virtue which civilization was likely to corrupt runs all through American intellectual history, being strongly marked in Transcendentalism, in Mark Twain and the whole convention of popular humor, and in much of the literature of the 20th century... ...That expressed by contemporary right-wingers, on the other hand, is directed against the free-lance intellectual who is interested in ideas for their own sake and has no particular institutional loyalties... www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V36I3P75-1.htm   (760 words)

Pentecostals and Anti-Intellectualism We have noticed over the years that many Pentecostals are against any thing considered ‘intellectual.’ This position is puzzling, because it is contrary to the very foundation of Christianity. One of the main reasons for such a stance is due to our strong emphasis on the spiritual, which to some individuals, excludes an in-depth study of Scripture and doctrine. Let our zeal for spiritual things be informed by a knowledge and understanding of God, derived from a thorough study of His Word. www.apostolic.net /biblicalstudies/intellectual.htm   (1176 words)

The Tragic Failure of English Evangelicalism Repeated by the Indian Church Their intellectual weakness becomes more pronounced in their view of 'practical' religion. However, it becomes clear after a few chapters that the subjects of his study are steadily gaining his admiration and empathy. And yet, his approach is fair and he always balances the negatives with their many positive contributions. www.facingthechallenge.org /rice.htm   (2321 words)

Matthew Yglesias: The Wages of Anti-Intellectualism (In religious far-right thinking, intellectualism is replaced by faith.) There is clear and present suspicion and even prejudice against intellectualism within conservative evangelical circles....circles which also happen to be Republican. And in the humanities, a lot of the intellectual groundwork, and hence the parameters of debate, are laid down in Europe, and so are going to be more "liberal". yglesias.typepad.com /matthew/2004/12/the_wages_of_an.html   (6145 words)

Amazon.ca: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life: Books Yes, Hofstadter does linger long about the anti-intellectual movement of the early 60s, and some of those references are lost to us, but that cannot be helped nor blamed on him. Hofstadter examines the multi-fronted attacks on intellectuals throughout the centuries: attacks from religions who suspected intellectuals of atheism or worse; attacks from the left; attacks from the right; attacks from the lower class who perceived intellectuals as privileged; and attacks from the upper class who worried about the knowledge/power balance. www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0394703170   (434 words)

marccooper: Activism and Anti-Intellectualism Intellectualism and left-wing activism have never gone together in my opinion, so this is not a new revelation. And it's those others who can be regarded as both over-intellectual and anti-intellectual. But they're also anti-intellectual when they insist on their particular doctrine to the exclusion of others-- say, mine. marccooper.typepad.com /marccooper/2005/01/activism_and_an.html   (11738 words)

Is Trent Lott Encouraging Anti-Intellectualism? I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The right pulling this anti-intellectualism crap is just as bad, if not worse, than young people at, say, Lanier High School picking on their friends for wanting to study and get a good education. By posting that comment, visible on his front page he is encouraging the notion that intellectuals ought to be ashamed of the trait that defines such a large part of who they are. They claim to speak for the "people", but the only people they represent are those urban like minded folks they claim as their own.... www.jacksonfreepress.com /forums/threads.php?id=6409_0_25_0_C   (2360 words)

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