Russell Jacoby

Russell Jacoby, born 1945, is a professor of history at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) an author, and critic of academic culture. His fields of interest are Twentieth Century European and American intellectual and cultural history specifically the history of intellectuals and education.

He was born in New York City and educated at the University of Chicago and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jacoby received his Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of Rochester. He belongs to the American Historical Association.

Publications

*"Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age (Columbia University Press, 2005)
*"The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in the Age of Apathy" (Basic Books, 1999)
*"Anthology: The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions" (Times Books, 1995).
*"Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America" (Doubleday, 1994)
*"The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe" (Basic Books, 1987; new edition with new Introduction, Basic Books 2000)
*"The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians" (Basic Books, 1983)
*"Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism" (Cambridge University Press, 1981)
*"Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology"(Beacon Press, 1975; Transaction, 1997)
* Articles and reviews in "American Historical Review", Grand Street, "Nation", "Los Angeles Times", "London Review of Books", The "New York Times", "Harper's" and elsewhere.

Awards

*Guggenheim Fellowship [http://www.gf.org/jfellow.html awarded 1980]
*National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship
* [http://www.loyola.edu/nationalfellowships/awards/mellon.html Andrew Mellon Fellowship]
* [http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/scholarp4.html Lehrman Fellowship awarded 1999] (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)

References

* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26273-2002Jul4?language=printer Going Public] , Washington Post, by Michael Berube Sunday, July 7, 2002
* [http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/jacobyr/ UCLA History Department] online biography
* [http://www.history.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=827 UCLA Faculty] online biography
* [http://www.uclaprofs.com/profs/jacoby.html UCLA Alumni Website] faculty profile and critique
* [http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/american_left/JacobyLott.htm Russell Jacoby versus Eric Lott] Columbia University online March 24, 2006
* [http://www.usc.edu/libraries/partners/laih/fellows/RusselJacoby.php USC Libraries] online thumbnail biography
* [http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/reviews/article.2005-12-05.9856494435 Russell Jacoby’s PICTURE IMPERFECT] Lauren Langman, Columbia University Press, 2005
* [http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2008/07/an-open-letter.html An Open Letter to the Chronicle of Higher Education: Please, Oh Please, Could You Publish Something about Philosophy by Someone Who Knows Something (even a little!) about the Subject?] Brian Leiter argues against Jacoby's claims about the discipline of philosophy in the CH

Further reading

* [http://www.contra-mundum.org/cm/reviews/tw_dogmatic.pdf T.E. Wilder's book review] of "How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America", contra-mundum.org
* [http://www.scottlondon.com/reviews/jacoby.html Scott London's book review] of "How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America", scottlondon.com
* [http://bostonreview.net/BR19.6/scialabba.html George Scialabba's book review] of "How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America", bostonreview.net. See George Scialabba
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007SCRAG Biography by Gale Reference Team] available through Amazon e-documents