# The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual

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- Authors: [Eric Lott](https://www.bookquiver.com/eric-lott)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2006-03-21

## Description

What ever happened with that liberal intellectual " boom" of the 1980s and 1990s? In The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual , Eric Lott- author of the prizewinning Love and Theft - shows that the charter members of the " new left" are suffering from a condition that he has dubbed " boomeritis." Too secure in their university appointments, lecture tours, and book deals, the once rising stars of the liberal elite- including Richard Rorty, Todd Gitlin, Michael Lind, Paul Berman, Greil Marcus, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.- have drifted away from their radical moorings toward the political centre. At once a chronicle of recent intellectual life and a polemic against contemporary liberalism's accommodations of the conservative status quo, The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual eviscerates the complacency that has seeped into the politics of the would-be vanguard of American intellectual thought. Lott issues a wake-up call to the great public intellectuals of our day and challenges them to reinvigorate political debate on campus, in their writing, and on the airwaves.

## Editions

### The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual

- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6504-186-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2006-03-21
- Language: en_GB