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Jacoby, Russell was born on April 23, 1945 in New York City.
(Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, ...)
Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, nothing succeeds like success, Russell Jacoby asks us to reexamine a loser of Marxism: the unorthodox Marxism of Western Europe. The author begins with a polemical attack on 'conformist' or orthodox Marxism, in which he includes structuralist schools. He argues that a cult of success and science drained this Marxism of its critical impulse and that the successes of the Russian and Chinese revolutions encouraged a mechanical and fruitless mimicry. He then turns to a Western alternative that neither succumbed to the spell of success nor obliterated the individual in the name of science. In the nineteenth century, this Western Marxism already diverged from Russian Marxism in its interpretation of Hegel and its evaluation of Engels' orthodox Marxism. The author follows the evolution of this minority tradition and its opposition to authoritarian forms of political theory and practice.
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( By examining the private correspondence of a circle of ...)
By examining the private correspondence of a circle of German psychoanalyst emigrés that included Otto Fenichel, Annie Reich, and Edith Jacobson, Russell Jacoby recaptures the radical zeal of classical analysis and the efforts of the Fenichel group to preserve psychoanalysis as a social and political theory, open to a broad range of intellectuals regardless of their medical background. In tracing this effort, he illuminates the repression by psychoanalysis of its own radical past and its transformation into a narrow medical technique. This book is of critical interest to the general reader as well as to psychoanalytic historians, theorists, and therapists.
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(This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the...)
This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and John Kenneth Galbraith; no younger group has arisen to succeed them. Unlike earlier intellectuals who lived in urban bohemias and wrote for the educated public, today's thinkers have flocked to the universities, where the politics of tenure loom larger than the politics of culture. In an incisive and passionate polemic, Russell Jacoby examines how gentrification, suburbanization, and academic careerism have sapped the vitality of American intellectual life.
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(This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the...)
This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the "public intellectual" in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and John Kenneth Galbraith; no younger group has arisen to succeed them. Unlike earlier intellectuals who lived in urban bohemias and wrote for the educated public, today's thinkers have flocked t...
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Jacoby, Russell was born on April 23, 1945 in New York City.
Bachelor, University Wisconsin, 1967. Master of Arts, University Rochester, 1968. Student, Ecole Pratique Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1970.
Doctor of Philosophy in History, University Rochester, 1974.
Lecturer, Boston University, Boston, 1974-1975; scholar in residence, Brandeis U., 1975-1976; lecturer department History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1976-1979; visiting assistant professor History, University of California, Irvine, 1979-1980; visiting associate professor Humanities, Simon Fraser U., Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1983-1984; visiting scholar, associate professor, Lonergan U. College/Liberal Arts College Concordia U., Montreal, Canada, 1985-1986; visiting senior lecturer, University of California, San Diego, 1986-1987; visiting associate professor of history, University of California, Riverside, 1988-1991; visiting associate professor of history, University of California at Los Angeles, 1992-1994; adjunct professor of history, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1995.
( By examining the private correspondence of a circle of ...)
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(Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, ...)
(Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, ...)
(This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the...)
(This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the...)
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