The Review/exchange is vintage Jacoby....
but what is "the Moishe Gonzalez Folding Chair in Critical Theory at  
UCLA"? I'd heard that Jacoby got a chair of some sort but did Paul  
Piccone (aka Moishe Gonzalez) endow a chair for Jacoby? this would be  
the first i've heard of it, cheers to all, doug

Quoting "Petruso, Karl" <[log in to unmask]>:

> The Dissent essay is one of the most memorable book reviews I have  
> ever read. I curate a very small collection of reviews and review  
> essays that take one's breath away, and this one is jockeying for  
> the top position on that list.
> The only book by Jacoby I have read is his Last Intellectuals (first  
> edition, many years ago). If I recall correctly, Jacoby came to  
> university teaching after a long career as a public  
> intellectual-that is, he laments in that book the disappearance of  
> public intellectuals in America, and soon afterward disappears his  
> ownself (i.e., is absorbed) into university teaching-in California,  
> no less. One thinks of Jacob Neusner leaving the Institute for  
> Advanced Study for the University of South Florida. Surf's up!
> Does this give new meaning to the term irony? More ironic than  
> holding the Moishe Gonzalez Folding Chair in Critical Theory at UCLA?
> Help me out here.
> --kmp
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> On 2/21/11 9:18 AM, "Agger, Ben" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Interesting and hilarious exchange between Russell Jacoby and  
> Michael Burawoy on a book that Jacoby recently reviewed in the pages  
> of Dissent.  You can find a link to the original review if you click  
> on the URL, below
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> http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online.php?id=445
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> ben
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