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The Last Intellectuals
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Author : Russell Jacoby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-07-13
The Last Intellectuals written by Russell Jacoby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-13 with Education categories.
This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and John Kenneth Galbraith; no younger group has arisen to succeed them. Unlike earlier intellectuals who lived in urban bohemias and wrote for the educated public, today's thinkers have flocked to the universities, where the politics of tenure loom larger than the politics of culture. In an incisive and passionate polemic, Russell Jacoby examines how gentrification, suburbanization, and academic careerism have sapped the vitality of American intellectual life.
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Author : Russell Jacoby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Last Intellectuals written by Russell Jacoby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.
Intellectuals In Politics And Academia
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Author : Russell Jacoby
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-07-20
Intellectuals In Politics And Academia written by Russell Jacoby and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-20 with Philosophy categories.
This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics. Russell Jacoby’s seminal The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (1987, 2000) introduced the term “public intellectual” and gave rise to heated controversy. Here Jacoby assesses contemporary public intellectuals, their profound failings and limited achievements. The book includes biting appraisals of well-known intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky, Hannah Arendt, and Bernard-Henri Lévy, as well as interventions on violence, utopia and multiculturalism.
The Last Intellectuals
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Author : Peter Coleman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Last Intellectuals written by Peter Coleman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Australia categories.
Peter Coleman records how journalists, essayists, poets, novelists and editors defended cultural freedom and contributed to the eventual collapse of communism. These beautifully crafted essays record his career in journalism and politics and his counsel about what we should do with our lives.
Public Intellectuals
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Author : Amitai Etzioni
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2006
Public Intellectuals written by Amitai Etzioni and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a wide range of commentaries and studies, this edited volume demonstrates the unique importance of public intellectuals and probes the timely question of how their voices can continue to be effective in our ever-changing social, academic and political climates. At a time when many argue that public intellectuals are dying out, the book addresses questions such as who qualifies as a public intellectual? Have their ranks thinned out and their qualities diminished? What is that special service that public intellectuals are supposed to render for the body politic? And, above all, is society being shortchanged?
Public Intellectuals
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Author : Richard A. Posner
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Public Intellectuals written by Richard A. Posner and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Political Science categories.
In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment--Richard Posner charts the decline of a venerable institution that included worthies from Socrates to John Dewey. With the rapid growth of the media in recent years, highly visible forums for discussion have multiplied, while greater academic specialization has yielded a growing number of narrowly trained scholars. Posner tracks these two trends to their inevitable intersection: a proliferation of modern academics commenting on topics outside their ken. The resulting scene--one of off-the-cuff pronouncements, erroneous predictions, and ignorant policy proposals--compares poorly with the performance of earlier public intellectuals, largely nonacademics whose erudition and breadth of knowledge were well suited to public discourse. Leveling a balanced attack on liberal and conservative pundits alike, Posner describes the styles and genres, constraints and incentives, of the activity of public intellectuals. He identifies a market for this activity--one with recognizable patterns and conventions but an absence of quality controls. And he offers modest proposals for improving the performance of this market--and the quality of public discussion in America today. This paperback edition contains a new preface and and a new epilogue.
The Last Great Cause
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Author : Stanley Weintraub
language : en
Publisher: W.H. Allen
Release Date : 1968
The Last Great Cause written by Stanley Weintraub and has been published by W.H. Allen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Literary Criticism categories.
Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone
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Author : Frank Furedi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2006-09-10
Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone written by Frank Furedi and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-10 with Education categories.
In this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy - and why we need to recreate a public sphere in which intellectuals and the general public can talk to each other again.
Public Intellectuals In The Global Arena
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Author : Michael C. Desch
language : en
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Release Date : 2016-11-15
Public Intellectuals In The Global Arena written by Michael C. Desch and has been published by University of Notre Dame Pess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with Philosophy categories.
What is a public intellectual? Where are they to be found? What accounts for the lament today that public intellectuals are either few in number or, worse, irrelevant? While there is a small literature on the role of public intellectuals, it is organized around various thinkers rather than focusing on different countries or the unique opportunities and challenges inherent in varied disciplines or professions. In Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena, Michael C. Desch has gathered a group of contributors to offer a timely and far-reaching reassessment of the role of public intellectuals in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. The contributors delineate the centrality of historical consciousness, philosophical self-understanding, and ethical imperatives for any intelligentsia who presume to speak the truth to power. The first section provides in-depth studies of the role of public intellectuals in a variety of countries or regions, including the United States, Latin America, China, and the Islamic world. The essays in the second section take up the question of why public intellectuals vary so widely across different disciplines. These chapters chronicle changes in the disciplines of philosophy and economics, changes that "have combined to dethrone the former and elevate the latter as the preeminent homes of public intellectuals in the academy." Also included are chapters that consider the evolving roles of the natural scientist, the former diplomat, and the blogger as public intellectuals. The final section provides concluding perspectives about the duties of public intellectuals in the twenty-first century.
French Intellectuals Against The Left
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Author : Michael Scott Christofferson
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2004
French Intellectuals Against The Left written by Michael Scott Christofferson and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Political Science categories.
Christofferson argues that French anti-totalitarianism was the culmination of direct-democratic critiques of communism & revisions of the revolutionary project after 1956. He offers an alternative interpretation for the denunciation of communism & Marxism by the French intellectual left in the late 1970s.
