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.
Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst, and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has published in both academic journals and in such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine, and Fortune, and he writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.
这本书以决绝的态度作了一番知识阶层彻头彻尾的“自我拆台”。作者描述知识分子从社会生活的各个领域,总是超出自己专精的领域,发挥自以为高明的见解,往往轻视贬低大众经验和鲜明的事实,罔顾系统性的因果关系,运用修辞技巧为自己进行合理化变化,并且通过舆论影响政策决策...
評分本书作者的立场和观点非常明确——就是当知识分子僭越了自身的知识领域后,因其社会影响力,将造成很多不良后果。以下凭记忆重构作者的论证过程并给出笔者个人拙见。 首先是本书中“知识分子”这个概念的论述范围。作者指出,“知识分子”这一概念的核心是“理...
評分托马斯•索维尔在《知识分子与社会》中开宗名义,对于“知识分子”这一群体的研究首先排除掉了两种人,一种是“弗里德曼”类型的,这一点很容易理解,同为信奉自由市场的经济学家,他的批判意识和批评方法必定首先基于他自身的知识结构与谱系,绝不会做出“背叛师门”的行为...
評分看了豆瓣的几个书评,包括译者自己写的,都非常精彩了。 偶然的机会,买了这本书。但一直没有读。晚上拿出来翻了翻,很有共鸣。 知识分子之于社会,大概类似于幕僚之于企业吧。德鲁克在《管理的实践》中对幕僚进行了严厉的批判,核心的观点就是幕僚对最终结果不承担责任,容易...
評分从十七世纪开始,知识分子逐渐脱离对权贵的依附,成为一个新兴的独立阶层。几百年来,对于知识分子的崇拜与质疑从未间断。知识分子一方面作为人类前进的导师,具有任何阶层都不具备的持久而深远的国家影响力乃至世界影响力。他们一面继承“帝王师”的角色,引领社会与历史发展...
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评分主要關於現代西方的intellectual,涉及經濟、越戰、族群等
评分主要關於現代西方的intellectual,涉及經濟、越戰、族群等
评分主要關於現代西方的intellectual,涉及經濟、越戰、族群等
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