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Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence from Cain and Abel to the Present

Product Description: THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND ACROSS CULTURES, the most common form of violence is that between family members and neighbors or kindred communities--in civil wars writ large and small. From assault to genocide, from assassination to massacre, violence usually emerges from inside the fold...read more

By Russell Jacoby

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9781439100240 | Free Pr, April 5, 2011, cover price $24.00

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9781451620818 | Free Pr, April 19, 2014, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND ACROSS CULTURES, the most common form of violence is that between family members and neighbors or kindred communities--in civil wars writ large and small.

On the Roots of Violence: Fratricide and Civilization

By Russell Jacoby

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Miscellaneous:

9781439117569 | Free Pr, April 5, 2011, cover price $10.99

Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought For An Anti-utopian Age

By Russell Jacoby

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Hardcover:

9780231128940 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 30, 2005, cover price $85.00

Paperback:

9780231128957 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 2007, cover price $28.00

Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism

Product Description: Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, nothing succeeds like success, Russell Jacoby asks us to reexamine a loser of Marxism: the unorthodox Marxism of Western Europe. The author begins with a polemical attack on 'conformist' or orthodox Marxism, in which he includes structuralist schools...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Russell Jacoby

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Hardcover:

9780521239158 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1981, cover price $42.95

Paperback:

9780521520171 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, nothing succeeds like success, Russell Jacoby asks us to reexamine a loser of Marxism: the unorthodox Marxism of Western Europe.

The Shadow of Ulysses: Public Intellectual Exchange Across the U.s.-mexico Border

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By Emiliano Corral (trans), Rose Hocker (trans), Russell Jacoby (foreword by) and Jose A. Rivera

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Hardcover:

9780739101735 | Lexington Books, November 1, 2000, cover price $80.00

The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe

Product Description: This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and John Kenneth Galbraith; no younger group has arisen to succeed them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Russell Jacoby

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9780465038121 | Basic Books, September 1, 1987, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Argues that there are no longer intellectuals working outside of the academic world, criticizes the New Left, and explains the decline of bohemia

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9780465036257 | Basic Books, July 1, 2000, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America.

9780374521752 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1989, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Argues that there are no longer intellectuals working outside of the academic world, criticizes the New Left, and explains the decline of bohemia

The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy

Product Description: We are facing the end of politics altogether, Russell Jacoby argues in The End of Utopia. Political contestation is premised on peopleâs capacity for offering competing visions of the future, but in a world that has run out of political ideas and no longer harbors any utopian visions, real political opposition is no longer possible...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780465020003 | Basic Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Examines the fate of leftist politics at the end of the millennium, discussing the obsolescence of utopianism and the lack of vision for the future

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9780465020010 | Basic Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: We are facing the end of politics altogether, Russell Jacoby argues in The End of Utopia.

Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology

Product Description: Russell Jacoby defines social amnesia as society's repression of remembranceâsociety's own past. In this book, Jacoby excavates the critical and historical concepts that have fallen prey to the dynamic of a society that strips them both of their historical and critical content...read more

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9781560008927 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, September 1, 1996), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Russell Jacoby defines social amnesia as society's repression of remembranceâsociety's own past.

Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America

Criticizing liberals and conservatives alike, the author argues that the controversy over political correctness in higher education is drawing attention from the real problems of illiteracy among the young, violence, and rampant commercialism. Reprint.

By Russell Jacoby

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9780385425179 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, June 1, 1995), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Criticizing liberals and conservatives alike, the author argues that the controversy over political correctness in higher education is drawing attention from the real problems of illiteracy among the young, violence, and rampant commercialism.

The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions

Gathers reviews and essays about the controversial book, 'The Bell Curve,' from a variety of viewpoints

By Naomi Glauberman (editor), Richard J. Herrnstein (editor) and Russell Jacoby (editor)

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9780812925876 | 1 edition (Times Books, March 1, 1995), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Gathers reviews and essays about the controversial book, 'The Bell Curve,' from a variety of viewpoints

Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Cultural Wars Divert Education and Distract America

A critic and intellectual historian argues that ongoing ideological and social debates have distracted public attention from the true ailments afflicting American education and society. By the author of The Last Intellectuals. Tour.

By Russell Jacoby

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9780385425162 | Doubleday, April 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Argues that ongoing ideological and social debates have distracted public attention from the true ailments afflicting American educaton and society

The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians

Looks at a group of psychoanalysts who were driven out of Central Europe by the fascists and how they attempted to keep alive psychoanalysis's radical tradition (view table of contents)

By Russell Jacoby

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9780226390697 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1986), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Looks at a group of psychoanalysts who were driven out of Central Europe by the fascists and how they attempted to keep alive psychoanalysis's radical tradition

Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology

Product Description: Book by Jacoby, Russell

By Russell Jacoby

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Paperback:

9780807029657 | Beacon Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Jacoby, Russell

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