Anti-intellectualism

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Revision as of 16:08, 2 June 2011

Anti-intellectualism is an attitude that minimizes the value of using intelligence and knowledge to address life's issues. This attitude exists in some young Earth creationists who feel that the Bible is proof enough for their beliefs and empirical evidence simply does not matter.

Synthesizing the work of Richard Hofstadter and Dabiel J. Rigney, Diane S. Claussen describes three types of anti-intellectualism.[1]

Religious anti-intellectualism, in which emotion is taken to be warm and good while reason is taken to be cold and bad.
Populist anti-intellectualism, in which skepticism is expressed about politicians with inherited wealth and elite educations.
Unreflexive instrumentalism, in which the value of learning is reduced to immediate material gain in the form of higher profits and higher salaries. In higher education this results in "suppression of ethics discussions, pressure for vocationalism in the humanities and social sciences, and advocacy of less autonomy in education."

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References

  1. Diane S. Claussen. "A Brief History of Anti-intellectualism in American Media." Academe. May-June 2011. Pp. 8-13.


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