Intellectuals and Society: Revised and Expanded Edition

This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition.

Key Additions and New Chapters:

• Four new chapters on intellectuals and race, including:
  • A chapter on race and intelligence.
  • An exploration of the radically different views of race prevailing among the intelligentsia at the beginning of the twentieth century and at the end.
    • Despite their differences, both views shared:
      • The same dogmatic quality.
      • A refusal to consider differing opinions or engage in serious debate with dissenters.
    • Each view led to:
      • Flourishes of rhetoric.
      • Travesties of logic.
      • Dire social consequences, though of very different kinds in the two eras.

Additional Revisions:

• A critique of John Rawls' conception of justice.
• A re-examination of the "trickle-down theory" behind "tax cuts for the rich."
• Revisions throughout the book, from the preface to the final chapter:
  • The final chapter has been extensively rewritten to:
    • Bring together and highlight the themes of the other chapters.
    • Make unmistakably clear what Intellectuals and Society is—and is not—seeking to do.