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MINDvs. M O N E Y MINDvs. MONEY The War between Intellectuals and Capitalism Alan S. Kahan ~~ ~~o~;~~~~~up LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2010 by Transaction Publishers Published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business C opyright © 2010 by Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2009038143 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kahan, Alan S. Mind vs. money : the war between intellectuals and capitalism / Alan S. Kahan. p.cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-1-4128-1063-0 1. Capitalism. 2. Intellectuals. I. Title. II. Title: Mind versus money. HB501.K224 2009 330.12’2--dc22 2009038143 ISBN 13: 978-1-4128-1063-0 (hbk) Contents Acknowledgments ix Part I: Mind vs. Money 1. The Ivory Tower at War 3 Mind vs. Money Who Are the “Intellectuals”? An Accidental Aristocracy The First Thing We Do, Let’s Get Rid of All the Intellectuals? An Insoluble Problem? 2. The Three Don’ts 29 A Very Brief History of Western Intellectuals The Three Don’ts The First Don’t—The Classical Background The Second Don’t—The Christian Background The Third Don’t—The Democratic Background 3. The Unexpected Honeymoon of Mind and Money, 65 1730-1830 The Point of Departure Justifi cations of Commerce Why the Honeymoon Began Why the Honeymoon Ended Part II: Intellectuals and their Discontents: The Nineteenth Century (1850-1914) 4. How Capitalism Lost the Struggle Over Character 99 A Fairy Tale The Self-Made Man The Hypocrite Family Values The Aristocratic Critique of Stupidity Bohemian vs. Bourgeois: Criticizing a Lifestyle The Question of Technology Our Mutual Incomprehension 5. Academic Alternatives to Capitalism 133 The Babel Project: Building Alternatives to Capitalism In the Beginning There Was Marx The Moral Community: Toennies The Protestant Critique of Capitalism: Veblen Sweetness and Light, Sturm und Drang: Arnold and Nietzsche With a Friend Like This, Who Needs Enemies? —Tocqueville Part III: Triumphs and Tragedies of the Anti-Capitalist Spirit: The Twentieth Century (1914-2001) 6. War 171 Why Great Revolutions Did Not Become Rare Continuity and Change after World War I Communism: The Red and the Pink Fascism Social Catholicism The New Deal Why Smart People Persist with Dumb Mistakes 7. Retreat 209 The Culture Wars The Myth of Alienation Aristocratic Reactions: Heidegger, the Frankfurt School, and Foucault Make Love, Not Money: The Counterculture The Neoconservatives—A Contradiction within the Intellectual Class? 8. Recent Battles 241 Anti-Americanism as an Anti-Capitalist Movement The French Case The Anti-Globalization Movement Green vs. Gold A Digression: Feminism and Capitalism 9. On Intellectuals in Democratic Society 269 The Hundred Fifty Years War The Chapter Tocqueville Never Wrote Capitalism’s Moral Culture Reforming the Intelligentsia The Games People Play The Intellectual Limits of Capitalism General Education Détente Index 293 Acknowledgments In writing this book I have often benefi tted from the kindness of strangers and of friends. I owe thanks to the Earhart Foundation for a summer research grant that allowed the project to begin, and to Florida International University for granting me a year’s leave in which to pursue it. I received valuable comments and advice from many more people than can be mentioned here, but among them must be singled out Nicholas Capaldi, Farley Chase, Henry C. Clark, Aurelian Craiutu, John Hellman, Irving Louis Horowitz, Robert Johnson, Jonathan B. Imber, Kenneth Lipartito, Aurora Morcillo, Filippo Sabetti, and Richard Whatmore. To all of them my thanks. All responsibility for the remaining errors in their fi elds of expertise is my own. Above all I wish to thank my family, who have been living with this project for more years than I care to count. ix
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