Suchergebnisse

L. Coser's definition of intellectuals as those critical of society & its ideas (Men of Ideas, New York: Free Press, 1965) is adopted in an examination of the function of intellectual circles & periodicals in the United States. Three types of nonreligious social circles among intellectuals are distinguished: those mainly concerned with political values (including antiestablishment political circles which emerged in the eighteenth century), those focused on cultural lifestyles, & those which combine both. The findings of an interview survey carried out in 1970 among 172 scientifically selected prominent United States intellectuals are reported & discussed; 40% of the respondents were professors, 40% editors & other prominent personnel of periodical & daily publications, & over 15% free-lancers, including poets, novelists, & essayists. Data on their geographic distribution & origins, their occupations, religion, age, class & sex, education, reading habits, problems most interested in, & opinions on rebellious students & student militancy, the Left, blacks, & the new politics are presented & discussed. In writing & publishing, the intellectuals tended to address each other & none listened to those outside of the circles of the intellectual elite. 22 Tables. S. Whittle.