J. David Hoeveler. Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 512pp. Cloth, $39.95.

2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 650-652
Author(s):  
Douglas McKnight
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Mind ◽  
Colonial Colleges

Leo Strauss and American Democracy: A Response to Wood and Holmes

1991 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lewis Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
American Mind ◽  
York Review ◽  
Judaic Studies

Although Leo Strauss spent the better part of his scholarly career in the United States, his name remained essentially unknown in this country during his lifetime outside the rather restricted academic circles of political science and Judaic studies. Only in recent years — owing, positively, to the best-selling status achieved by a book by one of his students, Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind; and negatively, to several critical reviews of his thought and influence in the semi-popular media —has Strauss's name been publicized to a somewhat wider audience. This article is a response to two of the critiques: Gordon Wood's relatively moderate “The Fundamentalists and the Constitution,” published in the New York Review of Books (18 February 1988), and Stephen Taylor Holmes's less restrained “Truths for Philosophers Alone?”, which appeared in the Times Literary Supplement (1–7 December 1989)

The Journey towards Castration: Interracial Sexual Stereotypes in Ellison's Invisible Man

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-231
Author(s):  
Frederick L. Radford
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Real World ◽  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Sexual Stereotypes ◽  
American Mind ◽  
Invisible Man ◽  
Negro Male ◽  
The Real ◽  
White American

In our society it is not unusual for a Negro to experience a sensation that he does not exist in the real world at all. He seems rather to exist in the nightmarish fantasy of the white American mind as a phantom that the white mind seeks unceasingly, by means both crude and subtle, to lay.(Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act (New York, 1964), p. 304)It is still true, alas, that to be an American Negro male is also to be a kind of walking phallic symbol: which means that one pays, in one's own personality, for the sexual insecurity of others.(James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name (New York, 1961), p. 172)

Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges

2004 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 645
Author(s):  
David W. Robson ◽  
J. David Hoeveler
Keyword(s):  
American Mind ◽  
Colonial Colleges
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