Men of Ideas

By: Lewis A. Coser

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Paperback | 22 July 1997

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Lewis A. Coser takes readers from the coffeehouses of 18th-century London to the mass-culture industries of today in search of a definition for the intellectual.

Describing the settings where intellectuals thrive and exploring the nature and contributions of various well-known groups, he discusses the various roles intellectuals play in society and why they matter.

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Preface to the First Paperback Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Introduction	p. 3
The French Rococo Salon	p. 11
D'Holbach and Helvetius	p. 16
Coffeehouses in Eighteenth-Century London	p. 19
The Royal Society and the Rise of Modern Science	p. 27
The Profession of Letters in Eighteenth-Century England	p. 37
The Widening Reading Public	p. 38
Booksellers and Authors	p. 41
Circulating Libraries	p. 44
The Commercialization of Literature	p. 45
The Commercialization of Writing: Four Cases from Nineteenth-Century England	p. 51
Walter Scott	p. 54
William M. Thackeray	p. 57
Charles Dickens	p. 61
George Eliot	p. 65
British Nineteenth-Century Reviews	p. 71
Censorship	p. 83
Political Censorship: Pre-Revolutionary France	p. 84
Moral Censorship: The Victorian Era in America	p. 89
The Political Sect: The Saint-Simonians	p. 99
Literary Bohemia: The Early Years of Greenwich Village	p. 111
The Little Magazine: The Masses and The Little Review	p. 121
The Masses	p. 123
The Little Review	p. 127
Introduction	p. 135
Intellectuals in Power	p. 136
Boring from Within	p. 138
Legitimizing Power	p. 140
Critics of Power	p. 142
Salvation Abroad	p. 143
Intellectuals in Power	p. 145
The Jacobin Intellectuals or the Politics of Virtue	p. 145
The Bolsheviks: Intellectuals as Professional Revolutionaries	p. 157
Boring from Within	p. 171
The Fabians: Intelligence Officers without an Army	p. 171
The Brain Trust Courts Power	p. 180
Legitimizing Power	p. 189
Napoleon and the Ideologues	p. 189
Gomulka and the Revisionists	p. 197
Critics of Power	p. 207
The Abolitionists	p. 207
The Dreyfusards	p. 215
Salvation Abroad	p. 227
Rage for Order: The Philosophes' Love Affair with China and Russia	p. 227
Riding the Wave of the Future in the Thirties	p. 233
Introduction	p. 247
Intellectual Types and Institutional Settings	p. 249
The Scene and Prospect Before Us: Two Contrasting Perspectives	p. 251
America as a Bureaucratized Mass Society: The Obsolescence of the Intellectual	p. 252
America as a Pluralistic Society: Sanguine Prospects for Superior Culture	p. 256
Unattached Intellectuals	p. 263
Academic Intellectuals	p. 275
The University Today	p. 277
The University as a Setting for Intellectuals	p. 280
Career Pressures and the Departmentalization of Knowledge	p. 281
Time Pressures	p. 283
Skill versus Cultivation	p. 284
The Consultant Role of Academic Men	p. 285
Research Entrepreneurship	p. 287
Bureaucratic Impediments	p. 289
Prospects	p. 291
Scientific Intellectuals	p. 295
The Professional Role of the Scientist	p. 296
The New Public Role of the Scientist	p. 305
The Prospect for Scientific Intellectuals	p. 311
Intellectuals in Washington	p. 315
The Intellectual as a Civil Servant	p. 315
The Intellectual as an Ad Hoc Bureaucrat	p. 320
Intellectuals in the Mass-Culture Industries	p. 325
The Movie Industry	p. 327
The Weekly Mass-Circulation Magazines	p. 331
Foundations as Gatekeepers of Contemporary Intellectual Life	p. 337
Summing Up	p. 349
Fragmentation and Diversification	p. 349
Concentration and Absorption	p. 354
Absorption, Alienation, or Detached Concern?	p. 358
Index	p. 363
Subject Index	p. 365
Name Index	p. 367
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