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Conservatives slobber over Jacoby's conservative denunciations of affirmative action.
"Organic intellectual" is not strictly identical with "public intellectual," of course, and one wonders whether Russell Jacoby understands who exactly he's signed up to teach, given his understanding of the term "public intellectual" (in The Last Intellectuals he defines it as one who writes with "vigor and clarity," not as an activist or left-wing scholar).
We might think the idea is newer because of the phrase, which gained currency in recent years mainly because of Jacoby.
In his book, Jacoby deplores what he characterizes as a sort of fall, from the Edenic condition of what he calls "classical American intellectuals" born at the turn of the century--Lewis Mumford, Dwight Macdonald, and, inevitably, Edmund Wilson--to the generation born after World War II, whose intellectuals, he claims, have all retreated into academia, where they have lost themselves in a thicket of specialized professional jargon.
His depiction of harrowing sit-ins "captures the courage and nobility of those small-scale protests that would transform America" (Tamar Jacoby, the Wall Street Journal ). Others say the 783-page book could have stood a heavy edit.