[lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 2/9/07, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> I would make that argument rest on a different Hofstadter's notion -
> "anti-intellectualism."  According to Hofstadter, anti-intellectualism is
> deeply seated in the American populism and its mistrust of "high culture,"
> urbanism and the literati class.

The problem, in my view, is not so much anti-intellectualism as
general dearth of sociological imagination as defined by C. Wright
Mills (cf.
<http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/~wood/207socimagination.htm>), which is
as MIA among the most literate Americans as the least, evidenced by
the fact that political and philosophical schools of sociological
imagination -- from Marxism to post-structuralism -- turn into theory
of individual self-fashioning when imported and assimilated into
American "high culture."
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Yoshie
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