Mind vs. Money: The War between Intellectuals and Capitalism
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1412810639 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 311 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kahan marshals a wealth of lightly worn erudition to offer a genuinely original diagnosis brimming with shrewd insights and bold suggestions. Even more important, he has given us new ways to think about how this can be avoided in future."—Nicholas Capaldi, Loyola University New Orleans“A useful primer to a giant, centuries-long debate. The book will provoke much anger, but it will also for those who are willing to consider it seriously provoke much rethinking. Its lighthearted comments on some of the giants
He is the author of numerous articles and books including Alexis de Tocqueville, Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe, and Aristocratic Liberalism.. Alan Kahan currently teaches at the Euro-American campus of Sciences Po in Reims, France. Previously he was professor of history at Florida International University
Hostility to capitalism takes new forms today. Anti-Americanism is one of them. For the past 150 years, Western intellectuals have trumpeted contempt for capitalism and capitalists. But in the eyes of many European and American intellectuals, when America is identified with capitalism, it is transformed from moral beacon into the "Great Satan." This is just one of the issues Mind vs. The anti-globalization, Green, communitarian, and New Age movements are all examples. The conflict between Mind and Money is the great, unresolved conflict of modern society. Dislike and contempt for the bourgeoisie, the middle classes, industry, and commerce have been a prominent trait of leading Western writers and artists. Intellectuals give such movements the legitimacy and leadership they would otherwise lack. To end it, we must first understand it.. Kahan argues that intellectuals are a permanently alienated elite in capitalist societies.In myriad forms, and on many fronts, the battle between Mind and Money contin
Proper pensees on panthestic panalienated pseudoaristocrats Elaine Holley Alan Kahan's book is a joy and a pleasure to read. The title might suggest cryptic academic econo- babble, and I can assure that is not the case. Instead, the lively, accessible, humorously addressed subject is a history and critique of those who wish to be the "intellectual" aristocracy; the academics, philosophers, journalists, lawyers turned politicians, existential writers, and other panalienated pretenders that have over