House of Intellect
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In this international bestseller, originally published in 1959, Jacques Barzun, acclaimed author of From Dawn to Decadence, takes on the whole intellectual — or pseudo-intellectual — world, attacking it for its betrayal of Intellect. "Intellect is despised and neglected," Barzun says, "yet intellectuals are well paid and riding high." He details this great betrayal in such areas as public administrations, communications, conversation and home life, education, business, and scholarship. In this edition's new Preface, Jacques Barzun discussess the intense — and controversial — reaction the world had to The House of Intellect.
Preface to the Perennial Classics EditionviiNote to the ReaderxiiiIThe Three Enemies of Intellect1IIThe Public Mind and Its Caterers32IIIConversation, Manners, and the Home62IVEducation Without Instruction91VInstruction Without Authority120VIThe Case Against Intellect150VIIThe Folklore of Philanthropy180VIIIPhilanthropic Businessmen and Bureaucrats205IXThe Language of Learning and of Pedantry223XThe Summing Up259Objective Tests: An Additional Note to Chapter V273Reference Notes279
