Abstract
Abstract Jacoby's book is a bit of a paradox: it stands as objective evidence against its own thesis. He has written a book about the decline of the public intellectual in a style of utmost clarity and lucidity — altogether a very good read — and succeeds at putting a sound argument together in non-specialized prose. In other words, begging the question of public impact for the moment, he has succeeded at being that which he proclaims extinct — a public intellectual. This is not to criticize him as actually contradictory. To the contrary, good cultural criticism often has this interesting dynamic of popping up and articulating otherwise amorphous and inarticulated dissatisfactions which until then only have a life akin to a rumor mill.
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