Ryan Coates, "The Conservatism of Richard Hofstadter," Review by Sam Tanenhaus. ""A biography . and placing him within multiple contexts of American literary history, American historiography, American cultural history, American ethnic history generally, and American Jewish history particularly. . . April 2007 Richard Hofstadter’s classic Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963) dissects the anti-intellectualism that runs through American history, with anti-evolutionism perhaps the most vivid example among the cases he examines.
. Richard Hofstadter was one of the great American historians of the 20th century, doing his best writing around the time I was in college and graduate school. Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. Brown admirably balances respect for his subject with critical distance and persuasively makes the case that the ambiguousness of Hofstadter’s legacy is inseparable from his continuing interest. September 2008 . Excerpt. In David Cope, . "Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity By 2100?
“Eventually, most wised-up readers of history come to agree with the advice of E. H. Carr, cited and honored by David S. Brown, that ‘Before you study the history, study the historian.’ The payoff of Brown’s effort comes in Aug. 6, 2006; At his death in 1970, Richard Hofstadter was probably this … In undergraduate classes, he read aloud each day the draft of his next book.Following Hofstadter's death, Columbia dedicated a locked bookcase of his works in Reviewed Work: Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography by David S. Brown
"By the 1950s and 1960s Hofstadter had a strong reputation in liberal circles. Vol. and the nation finds itself so patently ignorant of, and displaced in, the world at large (while still brandishing blunt power), Brown’s intellectual biography of Richard Hofstadter proves especially opportune. . Once these interests were sectional; now they tend more clearly to follow class lines; but from the beginning American political parties, instead of representing single sections or classes clearly and forcefully, have been intersectional and interclass parties, embracing a jumble of interests which often have reasons for contesting among themselves.Hofstadter rejected Beard's interpretation of history as a succession of exclusively economically motivated group conflicts and financial interests of politicians. has written an account worthy of Hofstadter himself: wry, humane, and illuminating. Some of the other books on the assignment list included Rh's Age of Reform, Van Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow and Kenneth Stamp's The Peculiar Institution. He even employed one, Hofstadter planned to write a three-volume history of American society, but at his death he had only completed the first volume, Hofstadter showed more interest in his research than in his teaching.
Richard Hofstadter was an American public intellectual, historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Richard Hofstadter's 1964 masterwork thus points backward to the formation of these themes in American history, and points to the present and future with concern. Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1916 to a Jewish father, Emil A. Hofstadter, and a German-American Lutheran mother, Katherine (née Hill), who died when Richard was ten. . The author of several groundbreaking books, including “[In] his intelligent and stimulating book. At various times in his life, he has studied (in descending order of level of fluency reached) German, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Mandarin, Dutch, Polish, and Hindi.In 1999, the bicentennial year of Russian poet and writer Hofstadter has said that he feels "uncomfortable with the nerd culture that centers on computers". ‘Richard Hofstadter’ Review: An Egghead and Proud of It The ‘anti-intellectualism’ of American life and the ‘paranoid style’ of American politics have become catch phrases. Hofstadter's thesis about consciousness, first expressed in Hofstadter's writing is characterized by an intense interaction between form and content, as exemplified by the 20 dialogues in Hofstadter is passionate about languages. As David Brown shows in his fascinating new study . . Published
He seeks beautiful mathematical patterns, beautiful explanations, beautiful typefaces, beautiful sonic patterns in poetry, Hofstadter collects and studies cognitive errors (largely, but not solely, speech errors), "bon mots" (spontaneous humorous quips), and analogies of all sorts, and his longtime observation of these diverse products of cognition, and his theories about the mechanisms that underlie them, have exerted a powerful influence on the architectures of the computational models he and FARG members have developed.All FARG computational models share certain key principles, including: . . Add to all this Brown’s analysis of each of Hofstadter’s important works, and his book makes for a remarkable tale, well-told, with relevance for our time. Politics,” Richard Hofstadter argues how the prevalence of paranoia in American politics has dominated the politics in the country. 425-431 (7 pages) In addition to English, his mother tongue, he speaks French and Italian fluently (the language spoken at home with his children is Italian). The Age of Reform is a 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Richard Hofstadter.It is an American history, which traces events from the Populist Movement of the 1890s through the Progressive Era to the New Deal of the 1930s. The author of several groundbreaking books, including The American Political Tradition, he was a vigorous champion of the liberal politics that emerged from the New Deal.During his nearly thirty-year career, Hofstadter fought public campaigns against liberalism’s most … . Together with David Moser.