Russell Jacoby Bio

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Jacoby, Russell (b. 1949), professor of history and education at UCLA (UCLA webpage).

• On Oct. 29, 2004, Jacoby wrote the following in an e-mail to Harold Marcuse:
  "I just stumbled upon your HM site. Wow. Very impressive. You know for what it is worth, I consider myself a student of HM (although I did not study with him.) He wrote a blurb to my first book ("Social Amnesia"), etc., etc."
• "Marcuse and the New Academics: A Note on Style," Telos no. 8 (Summer 1971)
• Books:
  • Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology (Beacon Press, 1975; Transaction, 1997)($25 at amazon)
  • The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (1987, 2000)($14 at amazon)
  • Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age (Columbia University Press, 2005). ($25 at amazon)
  • several other works listed on his UCLA page.
• January 2005 review of Herbert's Collected Papers, vol. 3, published in The Nation
• Nation's listing of articles Jacoby has written for The Nation
• In January 2013 Kurt Jacobsen of Cold Chicago Productions completed a 55 minute documentary about Russell Jacoby (see ScholarActivists entry), which is available on the "Humanity Explored" online film festival website. It is viewable at: www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/.../Velvet-Prisons--Russell-Jacoby-on-American-Academia.