Russell Jacoby

Field of Study

Europe

Research

Twentieth Century European and American intellectual history.

Publications

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

Degrees

• Universities of Chicago, Wisconsin and Rochester
  Ph.D. Rochester, 1974