Russell Jacoby

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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.

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  • 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.

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