In perhaps his most famous book, The Decline of the Intellectual,
Thomas Molnar launches into a fundamental critique of the
intellectual class. He sees it as a group that has lost its way,
collapsing a sense of vision into political activism, social
engineering, and culture manipulation, and abandoning the writing,
philosophizing, and scholarship that had occupied its predecessors.
Universities began to produce factory-like, faceless citizens, as
the Job market became the arbiter of education and culture. Today's
professors are recruited from this group of job seekers, and hence,
have a shared Indifference toward learning. Molnar likens
present-day intellectuals to the earlier Marxists who elaborated
their Utopian model in the Communist Party. The campus
intellectuals' objective is to transform the university into a
replica and a laboratory of the ideal society. Colleges and
universities thus become sources of propaganda of various
political, financial, cultural, and ideological trends, not only
among students, but professors as well. The thirty years separating
editions have done nothing to weaken such a critical appraisal. In
his new introduction, Molnar writes that the decline of
intellectuals has extended outside of the campus to the arts, the
public discourse, and the robotizatlon caused by technology. On the
initial publication of this work, Frank S. Meyer wrote in Modern
Age, "Thomas Molnar's book is not only true; it is intellectually
exciting and it will remain a necessary handbook for anyone
interested in the decisive problem of the 20th century." The
Decline of the Intellectual is essential reading for sociologists,
political scientists, educators, and university officials. It is
the basis of present-day critiques of the academic world. Thomas
Molnar is professor of philosophy of religion at the University of
Budapest. He is the author of numerous articles and books,
including The Emerging Atlantic Culture, Sartre: Ideologue of Our
Time, and Utopia: The Perennial Heresy.
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