Introduction -- The French Rococo Salon. D'Holbach and Helvetius -- Coffeehouses in Eighteenth-Century London -- The Royal Society and the Rise of Modern Science -- The Profession of Letters in Eighteenth-Century England. The Widening Reading Public. Booksellers and Authors. Circulating Libraries. The Commercialization of Literature -- The Commercialization of Writing: Four Cases from Nineteenth-Century England. Walter Scott. William M. Thackeray. Charles Dickens. George Eliot -- British Nineteenth-Century Reviews -- Censorship. Political Censorship: Pre-Revolutionary France. Moral Censorship: The Victorian Era in America -- The Political Sect: The Saint-Simonians -- Literary Bohemia: The Early Years of Greenwich Village -- The Little Magazine: The Masses and The Little Review. The Masses. The Little Review -- Introduction. Intellectuals in Power. Boring from Within. Legitimizing Power. Critics of Power. Salvation Abroad -- Intellectuals in Power. The Jacobin Intellectuals or the Politics of Virtue. The Bolsheviks: Intellectuals as Professional Revolutionaries -- Boring from Within. The Fabians: Intelligence Officers without an Army. The Brain Trust Courts Power -- Legitimizing Power. Napoleon and the Ideologues. Gomulka and the Revisionists -- Critics of Power. The Abolitionists. The Dreyfusards -- Salvation Abroad. Rage for Order: The Philosophes' Love Affair with China and Russia. Riding the Wave of the Future in the Thirties -- Introduction. Intellectual Types and Institutional Settings -- The Scene and Prospect Before Us: Two Contrasting Perspectives. America as a Bureaucratized Mass Society: The Obsolescence of the Intellectual. America as a Pluralistic Society: Sanguine Prospects for Superior Culture -- Unattached Intellectuals -- Academic Intellectuals. The University Today. The University as a Setting for Intellectuals. Career Pressures and the Departmentalization of Knowledge. Time Pressures. Skill versus Cultivation. The Consultant Role of Academic Men. Research Entrepreneurship. Bureaucratic Impediments. Prospects -- Scientific Intellectuals. The Professional Role of the Scientist. The New Public Role of the Scientist. The Prospect for Scientific Intellectuals -- Intellectuals in Washington. The Intellectual as a Civil Servant. The Intellectual as an Ad Hoc Bureaucrat -- Intellectuals in the Mass-Culture Industries. The Movie Industry. The Weekly Mass-Circulation Magazines -- Foundations as Gatekeepers of Contemporary Intellectual Life -- Summing Up. Fragmentation and Diversification. Concentration and Absorption. Absorption, Alienation, or Detached Concern?
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