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Perry, Lewis Curtis was born on November 21, 1938 in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Albert Quillen and Irene (Lewis) Perry.
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This historical study of intellectuals asks, for every period, who they were, how important they were, and how they saw themselves in relation to other Americans. Lewis Perry considers intellectuals in their varied historical roles as learned gentlemen, as clergymen and public figures, as professionals, as freelance critics, and as a professoriate. Looking at the changing reputation of the intellect itself, Perry examines many forms of anti-intellectualism, showing that some of these were encouraged by intellectuals as surely as by their antagonists. This work is interpretative, critical, and highly provocative, and it provides what is all too often missing in the study of intellectuals—a sense of historical orientation.
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"An important, provocative and original work, of great interest to Indian scholars, historians of religions, psychologists and historians of ideas, but accessible also to the cultivated reader. Even if one does not always agree with the author's interpretation, one cannot but admire her vast and precise learning, her splendid translations and exegesis of so many, and so different, Sanskrit texts, and her uninhibited, brilliant, and witty prose."—Mircea Eliade, University of Chicago "This is . . . a book which is as rich in detail as the carvings of the great Hindu temples. It shares with them a delight in the interplay of myth and mundane experience, and above all an empathy with the Hindu preoccupation with the meaning of human existence in all its complexity."—G. M. Carstairs, Times Literary Supplement
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Perry, Lewis Curtis was born on November 21, 1938 in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Albert Quillen and Irene (Lewis) Perry.
Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College, 1960; Master of Science, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1967.
Assistant professor history State University of New York, Buffalo, 1966-1972, associate professor, 1972-1978. Professor Indiana University Bloomington, 1978-1984. Andrew Jackson professor history Vanderbilt University, 1984-1999, director American Studies, 1992-1995.
John Francis Bannon professor history St. Louis University, since 1999. Ampart lecturer United States Information Service, India and Nepal, 1986, France, 1989. Visiting professor University Leeds, 1988-1989.
Visiting Raoul Wallenberg fellow Rutgers University, 1991-1992. Chair Frederick Douglass prize jury, Gilder Lehrman Center, 2003-2004.
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President Unitarian-Universalist Church, Bloomington, Indiana, 1983-1984. Member Ralph Waldo Emerson prize committee Phi Beta Kappa, 1997-1999, chair, 1999. Member of Society Historians Early American Republic, American History Association, Organization American Historians (editor 1978-1984, executive board 1996-1999).
Married Ruth Opler, June 5, 1962 (divorced 1970). 1 child, Curtis Allen. Married Elisabeth Israels, November 26, 1970.
Children: Susanna Irene, David Mordecai.