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New York Intellect

A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time

Thomas Bender
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New York Intellect is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles of thought and writing that reflect the special character of the city, its boundless energies and deep divisions.

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Remarkable history—superb in research, insight, and interpretation... The book is full of fascinations.

— New Yorker

A model of cultural history... [Bender] makes his case for New York with the conviction that he knows what is genuinely distinctive and valuable in the life of a great city and that his view of the matter is not only true to the reality of its history but important to those who hold democratic ideals.

— New York Times Book Review
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Dedication
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Acknowledgments
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Prologue: New York City and the Condition of Intellect
Part I: Civic Culture
Chapter 1. The Emergence of City
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Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue: New York City and the Condition of Intellect
Part I: Civic Culture
Chapter 1. The Emergence of City
Chapter 2. Patricians and Artisans
Chapter 3. A University of the City
Part II: Literary Culture
Chapter 4. Toward a Metropolitan Sensibility
Chapter 5. The Metropolitan Gentry: Culture Against Politics
Chapter 6. The Modern Literary Intellectual
Part III: Academic Culture
Chapter 7. A Metropolitan University
Chapter 8. Professors as Intellectuals
Part IV: An International Capital of Culture
Chapter 9. Refiguration
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Thomas Bender
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Thomas Bender

Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own...
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