Thomas Bender
Author of A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History
About the Author
Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University
Works by Thomas Bender
New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time (1987) 84 copies
The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (1992) 78 copies
Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States (1992) 36 copies
Daedalus, Winter 1997: American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines (1998) — Editor — 35 copies, 1 review
Budapest and New York : studies in metropolitan transformation, 1870-1930 (1994) — Editor — 7 copies
Associated Works
Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America (1986) — Consulting Editor, series, some editions — 200 copies, 1 review
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In this history of what New York City came from and what it can become, Thomas Bender invokes architecture, art, photography, city planning, and sociology. He explores a variety of subjects as they relate to the city. The rise (and fall) of intellectuals, how business affected architecture (the prevalence of high-rise buildings), the symbiosis between universities and the city.
“New York today has become such a racially and class divided city that it takes some effort to recall the show more essentially working and lower-middle class character of the city in the first half of the twentieth century.” He might have added economically divided, but this book was published in 2002 when the distinctions may not have been as sharp as they are today. He decries the homogenization of Times Square: “The bright signs remind me not of older New York but rather of the new Seoul.”
Bender makes a case for the city as “a center of difference” and maybe the only city in the U.S. able to “stand against the rising tide of privatization, residential isolation, intolerance toward difference, and the substitution of consumerism for politics.” He believes the challenge is for New York City to “confront the present and reinvent a metropolitan public that will in and of itself sustain a vital culture of creativity and a politics of justice.” show less
“New York today has become such a racially and class divided city that it takes some effort to recall the show more essentially working and lower-middle class character of the city in the first half of the twentieth century.” He might have added economically divided, but this book was published in 2002 when the distinctions may not have been as sharp as they are today. He decries the homogenization of Times Square: “The bright signs remind me not of older New York but rather of the new Seoul.”
Bender makes a case for the city as “a center of difference” and maybe the only city in the U.S. able to “stand against the rising tide of privatization, residential isolation, intolerance toward difference, and the substitution of consumerism for politics.” He believes the challenge is for New York City to “confront the present and reinvent a metropolitan public that will in and of itself sustain a vital culture of creativity and a politics of justice.” show less
Daedalus: American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines - Philosophy, Literary Studies, Political Science, and Economics Winter 1997 Vol. 126 No 1 pp. 351 by Thomas Bender
Political Science
225 Political Science in the 1940s and 1950s Charles Lindblom
253 Still Blowing in the Wind: The American Quest fora Democratic, Scientific Political Science Rogers M. Smith
225 Political Science in the 1940s and 1950s Charles Lindblom
253 Still Blowing in the Wind: The American Quest fora Democratic, Scientific Political Science Rogers M. Smith
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