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1	Structural constraints on the political activity of intellectuals, 1890's-1950's Cohn, Leo, January 1975 (has links) Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [322-327]). Intellectuals United States
2	Tutors to society five American intellectuals and war, 1917-1945 / Resh, Richard. January 1966 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-210).
3	Public intellectuals, rhetorical style and the public sphere : the politics of thinking out loud Young, Anna Marjorie, 1975- 29 August 2008 (has links) Our public culture is rapidly shrinking: our nation is replete with residents instead of citizens. Part of the blame for the impoverishment of public life is the retreat and subsequent almost total isolation of intellectuals, those who put their deep training and experience to work in sociopolitical contexts in a public vernacular. The failure of most traditional intellectuals to reach a public audience is a failure of rhetoric; public intellectuals, on the other hand, mark rhetorical success in connecting the worlds of the public and the intellectual to advance change. This dissertation explores the interconnections between public intellectuals, rhetorical style and the public sphere to understand how and why public intellectuals are able to do what they do such that we may be able to encourage this work from others. Most importantly, this intersection may help explain how we can reclaim an active, democratic public sphere in the United States. Political participation--United States Specialists--United States
4	Infinite regress: the problem of womanhood in Edith Wharton's lesser-read works Smith, Alex 01 May 2015 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Wharton’s heroines are ordinary women who fight to secure material comfort and create selves that satisfy their emotional and sexual needs. These women often find that the two goals are mutually exclusive, since society strictly dictates appropriate behavior. This code of behavior stems from their relation to men: as objects to be won, as wives, and as mothers. In many instances, women are not even aware of their prescriptive roles and confuse their search for self with a search for security. Material comfort does not nurture Wharton’s heroines’ inner selves and they feel a metaphysical dissatisfaction, often seeking to find contentment through divorce or affairs. What they find in either case is that the cure to their ennui is not material, but mental. Wharton’s women seek a transcendent self—a self that is not dependent upon popular notions of respectability; a spiritual state that is independent from any attachment to social imperatives. Edith Wharton Feminism Womanhood Bunner Sister Autres Temps The Pretext Souls Belated Mother's Reccompense Wharton, Edith -- 1862-1937 Man-woman relationships Manners and customs Women's rights Sex discrimination against women Self (Philosophy) Necessity (Philosophy) Authors, American -- 20th century Women intellectuals -- United States

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