Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1972 - 5/31/1973

Funding Totals

$11,250.00 (approved)
$11,250.00 (awarded)


The Rise of Pop Intellect

FAIN: FB-11267-72

Reed College (Portland, OR 97202-8138)
Samuel McCracken (Project Director: September 1972 to present)

To further define and analyze the phenomenon called "Pop Intellect," of which Marshall McLuhan and his hierophants are perhaps the most obvious example, but which includes such phenomena as the current wave of neo-romantic educationism, the less critical wing of the ecological and population control movement, and much current political thought.