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Tables of Contents for Men of Ideas
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the First Paperback Edition
xi
4
Preface to the Original Edition
xv
Part One. SETTINGS FOR INTELLECTUAL LIFE
3
132
1. Introduction
3
8
2. The French Rococo Salon
11
8
D'Holbach and Helvetius
16
3
3. Coffeehouses in Eighteenth-Century London
19
8
4. The Royal Society and the Rise of Modern Science
27
10
5. The Profession of Letters in Eighteenth-Century England
37
14
The Widening Reading Public
38
3
Booksellers and Authors
41
3
Circulating Libraries
44
1
The Commercialization of Literature
45
6
6. The Commercialization of Writing: Four Cases from Nineteenth-Century England
51
20
Walter Scott
54
3
William M. Thackeray
57
4
Charles Dickens
61
4
George Eliot
65
6
7. British Nineteenth-Century Reviews
71
12
8. Censorship
83
16
Political Censorship: Pre-Revolutionary France
84
5
Moral Censorship: The Victorian Era in America
89
10
9. The Political Sect: The Saint-Simonians
99
12
10. Literary Bohemia: The Early Years of Greenwich Village
111
10
11. The Little Magazine: The Masses and The Little Review
121
14
The Masses
123
4
The Little Review
127
8
Part Two. INTELLECTUALS AND THE HOUSE OF POWER
135
112
12. Introduction
135
10
Intellectuals in Power
136
2
Boring from Within
138
2
Legitimizing Power
140
2
Critics of Power
142
1
Salvation Abroad
143
2
13. Intellectuals in Power
145
26
The Jacobin Intellectuals or the Politics of Virtue
145
12
The Bolsheviks: Intellectuals as Professional Revolutionaries
157
14
14. Boring from Within
171
18
The Fabians: Intelligence Officers without an Army
171
9
The Brain Trust Courts Power
180
9
15. Legitimizing Power
189
18
Napoleon and the Ideologues
189
8
Gomulka and the Revisionists
197
10
16. Critics of Power
207
20
The Abolitionists
207
8
The Dreyfusards
215
12
17. Salvation Abroad
227
20
Rage for Order: The Philosophes' Love Affair with China and Russia
227
6
Riding the Wave of the Future in the Thirties
233
14
Part Three. THE INTELLECTUAL IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA
247
116
18. Introduction
247
4
Intellectual Types and Institutional Settings
249
2
19. The Scene and Prospect Before Us: Two Contrasting Perspectives
251
12
America as a Bureaucratized Mass Society: The Obsolescence of the Intellectual
252
4
America as a Pluralistic Society: Sanguine Prospects for Superior Culture
256
7
20. Unattached Intellectuals
263
12
21. Academic Intellectuals
275
20
The University Today
277
3
The University as a Setting for Intellectuals
280
1
Career Pressures and the Departmentalization of Knowledge
281
2
Time Pressures
283
1
Skill Versus Cultivation
284
1
The Consultant Role of Academic Men
285
2
Research Entrepreneurship
287
2
Bureaucratic Impediments
289
2
Prospects
291
4
22. Scientific Intellectuals
295
20
The Professional Role of the Scientist
296
9
The New Public Role of the Scientist
305
6
The Prospect for Scientific Intellectuals
311
4
23. Intellectuals in Washington
315
10
The Intellectual as a Civil Servant
315
10
The Intellectual as an Ad Hoc Bureaucrat
320
5
24. Intellectuals in the Mass-Culture Industries
325
12
The Movie Industry
327
4
The Weekly Mass-Circulation Magazines
331
6
25. Foundations as Gatekeepers of Contemporary Intellectual Life
337
12
26. Summing Up
349
14
Fragmentation and Diversification
349
5
Concentration and Absorption
354
4
Absorption, Alienation, or Detached Concern?
358
5
INDEX
363
2
Subject Index
365
2
Name Index
367