This much revised and reorganized edition of "Intellectuals and
Society "is more than half again larger than the first edition.
Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race,
including a chapter on race and intelligence.
These new chapters show the radically different views of race
prevailing among the intelligentsia at the beginning of the
twentieth century and at the end-- and yet how each of these
opposite views of race had the same dogmatic quality and the same
refusal to countenance differing opinions among their
contemporaries, much less engage dissenting opinions in serious
debate. Moreover, each of these very different views of race
produced flourishes of rhetoric and travesties of logic, leading to
dire social consequences, though of very different sorts in the two
eras. Other additions to this edition include a critique of John
Rawls' conception or justice and a re-examination of the so-called
"trickle-down theory" behind "tax cuts for the rich." There are
other revisions, from the preface to the final chapter, the latter
being extensively rewritten to bring together and highlight the
themes of the other chapters, and to make unmistakably clear what
"Intellectuals and Society "is, and is not, seeking to do.
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