Authors: Jacques Barzun
ISBN-13: 9780060102302, ISBN-10: 0060102306
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: 1st Perennial Classics Edition
Born in France in 1907, Jacques Barzun came to the United States in 1920. After graduating from Columbia College, he joined the faculty of the university, becoming Seth Low Professor of History and, for a decade, Dean of Faculties and Provost. The author of some thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller From Dawn to Decadence, he received the Gold Medal for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, of which he was twice president. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.
In this international bestseller, originally published in 1959, Jacques Barzun, acclaimed author of From Dawn to Decadence, takes on the whole intellectual or pseudo-intellectual world, attacking it for its betrayal of Intellect. "Intellect is despised and neglected," Barzun says, "yet intellectuals are well paid and riding high." He details this great betrayal in such areas as public administrations, communications, conversation and home life, education, business, and scholarship.
In this edition's new Preface, Jacques Barzun discussess the intense and controversial reaction the world had to The House of Intellect.
Preface to the Perennial Classics Edition | vii | |
Note to the Reader | xiii | |
I | The Three Enemies of Intellect | 1 |
II | The Public Mind and Its Caterers | 32 |
III | Conversation, Manners, and the Home | 62 |
IV | Education Without Instruction | 91 |
V | Instruction Without Authority | 120 |
VI | The Case Against Intellect | 150 |
VII | The Folklore of Philanthropy | 180 |
VIII | Philanthropic Businessmen and Bureaucrats | 205 |
IX | The Language of Learning and of Pedantry | 223 |
X | The Summing Up | 259 |
Objective Tests: An Additional Note to Chapter V | 273 | |
Reference Notes | 279 |