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A Sad Heart at the Barricades |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Wilfred M. McClay |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,674 Words, 16,918 Characters |
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THE LAST INTELLECTUALS
American Culture in the Age of Academe
Russell Jacoby
New York: Basic Books, 1987
290 pp., $18.95
During the 1970s, Russell Jacoby was perhaps the most vehement advocate in this country of the work (then obscure and largely untranslated) of the German neo-Marxist social thinker Theodor Adorno, one of the principal figures associated with the so-called Frankfurt School. Indeed, Jacoby's advocacy went so far, according to the historian Martin Jay, "that he emulated many of [Adorno's] stylistic mannerisms, [and] soon became his major defender against all attacks from the right or left." Adorno, of course, is best is best known for the exasperating opacity and difficulty of his prose, an expository strategy he quite consciously adopted as a means of...
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...cdonald was nothing if not a facile critic, and the accusation stuck. Today, Brooks is remembered only for his somewhat immature radical manifesto "America's Coming-of-Age," while the great substantive achievements of his career lie buried in the cultural Kleenex pile. By his choice of heroes, the antinomian Mr. Jacoby makes it clear that he wants us to keep playing the game the same old way.
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