New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time - Softcover

Bender

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801836395 ISBN 13: 9780801836398

Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, 1988

Synopsis

New York Intellect is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles of thought and writing that reflect the special character of the city, its boundless energies and deep divisions.

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About the Author

Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time; Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States; and Community and Social Change in America; all published by Johns Hopkins.

From the Back Cover

'New York Intellect' is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles of thought and writing that reflect the special character of the city, its boundless energies and deep divisions.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801836395
• ISBN 13: 9780801836398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 444