Russell Jacoby

Russell Jacoby (born April 23, 1945) is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an author and a 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.

In 2009, he was appointed to the Moishe Gonzales Folding Chair of Critical Theory. A documentary, Velvet Prisons: Russell Jacoby on American Academia, premiered in 2013 and played at many festivals, including the Humanity Explored Film Festival, the Davis International Film Festival, and Columbia Gorge Film Festival.[1]

He was born in New York City and educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received a doctorate in 1974 from the University of Rochester.

Publications
  • Articles and reviews in American Historical Review, Grand Street, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, London Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper's and elsewhere.
  • Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology (Beacon Press, 1975; Transaction, 1997)
  • "What is Conformist Marxism?" Telos 45 (Fall 1980). New York: Telos Press.
  • Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism (Cambridge University Press, 1981)
  • The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians (Basic Books, 1983)
  • The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (Basic Books, 1987; new edition with new Introduction, Basic Books 2000)
  • Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America (Doubleday, 1994)
  • The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions (Times Books, 1995).
  • The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in the Age of Apathy (Basic Books, 1999)
  • Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age (Columbia University Press, 2005)
  • Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence from Cain and Abel to the Present (Free Press, 2011)
  • On Diversity: The Eclipse of the Individual in a Global Era (Seven Stories Press, 2020)

Awards

References
  1. [lastintellectuals.jigsy.com "Velvet Prisons"]. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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