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One-Another-ness and American Intellectual History

Now we are in the heart of the batting order.  This section of Hollinger and Capper’s second volume features not just important ideas and important debates, but names we recognize as important thinkers – nay, professional thinkers.  This section of Hollinger and Capper gives us a straight dose of that character we have long debated and discussed at this blog:  the public intellectual. Yes, some of our authors were ensconced in – or at least salaried by – academe (on the other hand, Veblen was defiantly unensconceable), but they addressed and attracted broader audiences for their ideas, and the arguments Read more