Russell Jacoby

Russell Jacoby

Professor Emeritus

Email: rjacoby@history.ucla.edu

Office: 7278 Bunche Hall

Phone: 310-206-2625

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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