NEW YORK INTELLECT

by Thomas Bender

Overview

New York Intellect is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles of thought and writing that reflect the special character of the city, its boundless energies and deep divisions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307831521
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/24/2013
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

THOMAS H. BENDER is a notable American historian specializing in urban history and intellectual history. He has served as University Professor of the Humanities at New York University since 1982. He was the Chair of the Department of History from 1986 to 1989 and Dean for the Humanities from 1995 to 1998. In addition to an extensive body of published books, he has written for The New York Times, The Nation, The LA Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Newsday. He retired in 2015.