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His father is University of Pennsylvania sociologist Philip Rieff, the author, most notably, of Freud: The Mind of A Moralist . His mother is essayist, novelist, filmmaker, and political activist Susan Sontag, as iconic an intellectual as our resolutely anti-intellectual culture is ever likely to recognize.
It is telling, indeed, about the anti-intellectual nature of this book that the blurbs on the back do not come from intellectuals or scholars at all but from popular black personalities and partisans for causes.
Knowledge, in the instance of the definitive reference book, becomes entombed and sanctified, very much serving the anti-intellectual ends of the middlebrow, who want not to encounter knowledge and to wrestle with it but to store it as an authority on the bookshelf.
Moreover, even more so than whites, black intellectuals tend to give in to the worst sorts of anti-intellectual impulses because of social do-goodism and political protest.
The anti-intellectual version of tête-à-tête is its English translation, head-to-head , which sounds somewhat vulgar to me and carries with it more the sense of `confrontation' than `intimate encounter.