By Eric Lott

On Sale: Mar 21, 2006
Page Count: 272 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN-13: 9780465041862

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What ever happened with that liberal intellectual “boom” of the 1980s and 1990s? In The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual, Eric Lott — author of the prizewinning Love and Theft — shows that the charter members of the “new left” are suffering from a condition that he has dubbed “boomeritis.” Too secure in their university appointments, lecture tours, and book deals, the once rising stars of the liberal elite — including Richard Rorty, Todd Gitlin, Michael Lind, Paul Berman, Greil Marcus, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. — have drifted away from their radical moorings toward the political center. At once a chronicle of recent intellectual life and a polemic against contemporary liberalism’s accommodations of the conservative status quo, The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual eviscerates the complacency that has seeped into the politics of the would-be vanguard of American intellectual thought. Lott issues a wake-up call to the great public intellectuals of our day and challenges them to reinvigorate political debate on campus, in their writing, and on the airwaves.

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Eric Lott

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Eric Lott is a Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the award-winning Love and Theft: Blackface, Minstrelsy, and the American Working Class, which won the 1994 Avery O. Craven Award from OAH, the first annual MLA Prize for a First Book, and the 1994 Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. Lott’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Village Voice, the Nation, Transition, and American Quarterly. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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