The Responsibility Of Intellectuals
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The Responsibility Of Intellectuals
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Author : Noam Chomsky
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2017-11-07
The Responsibility Of Intellectuals written by Noam Chomsky and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Philosophy categories.
Selected by Newsweek as one of “14 nonfiction books you’ll want to read this fall” Fifty years after it first appeared, one of Noam Chomsky’s greatest essays will be published for the first time as a timely stand-alone book, with a new preface by the author As a nineteen-year-old undergraduate in 1947, Noam Chomsky was deeply affected by articles about the responsibility of intellectuals written by Dwight Macdonald, an editor of Partisan Review and then of Politics. Twenty years later, as the Vietnam War was escalating, Chomsky turned to the question himself, noting that "intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments" and to analyze their "often hidden intentions." Originally published in the New York Review of Books, Chomsky's essay eviscerated the "hypocritical moralism of the past" (such as when Woodrow Wilson set out to teach Latin Americans "the art of good government") and exposed the shameful policies in Vietnam and the role of intellectuals in justifying it. Also included in this volume is the brilliant "The Responsibility of Intellectuals Redux," written on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, which makes the case for using privilege to challenge the state. As relevant now as it was in 1967, The Responsibility of Intellectuals reminds us that "privilege yields opportunity and opportunity confers responsibilities." All of us have choices, even in desperate times.
The Responsibility Of Intellectuals
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Author : Nicholas Allott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Responsibility Of Intellectuals written by Nicholas Allott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Intellectuals categories.
With the publication of "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," Noam Chomsky burst onto the US political scene as a leading critic of the war in Vietnam. Privilege, he argues, brings with it the responsibility to tell the truth and expose lies, but our intellectual culture only pays lip service to this ideal. The essay has been described as the "single most influential piece of anti-war literature" of the Vietnam war period. Since then, Chomsky has continued to equip a growing international audience with the facts and arguments needed to understand--and change--our world. According to the New York Times, Chomsky "may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today." This book revisits "The Responsibility of Intellectuals" half a century later. It includes six new essays written to celebrate Chomsky's famous intervention and explore its relevance in today's world. Nicholas Allott, Chris Knight, Milan Rai, and Neil Smith have studied and written about Chomsky's thought for many years, while Craig Murray and Jackie Walker describe the personal price they have paid for speaking out. The book concludes with Chomsky's recollections of the background to the original publication of his essay, followed by extensive commentary from him on its fiftieth anniversary.
The Political Responsibility Of Intellectuals
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Author : Ian MacLean
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1990-12-13
The Political Responsibility Of Intellectuals written by Ian MacLean and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-12-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Addresses the many problems in defining the relationship of intellectuals to the society in which they live. The contributors come from a wide variety of disciplines, and are drawn from both America and Eastern and Western Europe.
The Responsibility Of Intellectuals
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Author : Alan M. Wald
language : en
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Release Date : 1992
The Responsibility Of Intellectuals written by Alan M. Wald and has been published by Humanities Press International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is a book that will engage students and scholars of U.S. literature and radicalism, as well as political activists in the labor, antiracist, peace, and socialist movements. It brings together many of Alan M. Wald's most influential and original essays of the last decade on Marxist writers and intellectuals. A richly provocative inquiry into the antinomies of cultural radicalism, the collection is distinguished by Wald's characteristic blend of original, meticulous research with lucid, incisive theory. These essays center on Wald's efforts to critically assess what remains recuperable in the traditions of "committed" radical cultural workers. The selections include biographical sketches of twentieth-century activist writers, artists, and intellectuals; the analysis of radical fiction, poetry, and works of criticism; the critique of various Marxist theories of cultural policy and practice; a review of contemporary debates about racism and culture; and several searching explorations of the ambiguities and challenges of left-wing political commitment in our time.
Noam Chomsky On Power Knowledge And Human Nature
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Author : P. Wilkin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1997-04-30
Noam Chomsky On Power Knowledge And Human Nature written by P. Wilkin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-30 with Political Science categories.
Noam Chomsky is among the most influential contemporary thinkers. Peter Wilkin looks in particular at the philosophical basis of his social and political thought, especially his ideal about power, knowledge and human nature. He shows how Chomsky's ideas can help to defend naturalism as in social and political thought. Chomsky's critical writings of social inquiry and his normative ideas on libertarian socialism and human emancipation are interpreted as synthesising a number of important ideas and approaches at a time when these ideas have fallen out of favour.
The Responsibility Of Intellectuals
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Author : Noam Chomsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Responsibility Of Intellectuals written by Noam Chomsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Intellectuals categories.
Representations Of The Intellectual
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Author : Edward W. Said
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-10-24
Representations Of The Intellectual written by Edward W. Said and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-24 with Literary Collections categories.
In these six essays--delivered on the BBC as the prestigious Reith Lectures--Edward Said addresses the ways in which the intellectual can best serve society in the light of a heavily compromised media and of special interest groups who are protected at the cost of larger community concerns. Said suggests a recasting of the intellectual's vision to resist the lures of power, money, and specialization. In these pieces, Said eloquently illustrates his arguments by drawing on such writers as Antonio Gramsci, Jean-Paul Sartre, Regis Debray, Julien Benda, and Theodore Adorno, and by discussing current events and celebrated figures in the world of science and politics: Robert Oppenheimer, Henry Kissinger, Dan Quayle, Vietnam and the Gulf War. Said sees the modern intellectual as an editor, journalist, academic, or political adviser--in other words, a highly specialized professional--who has moved from a position of independence to an alliance with powerful corporate, institutional, or governmental organizations. He concludes that it is the exile-immigrant, the expatriate, and the amateur who must uphold the traditional role of the intellectual as the voice of integrity and courage, able to speak out against those in power.
The Treason Of The Intellectuals
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Author : Julien Benda
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-08
The Treason Of The Intellectuals written by Julien Benda and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Social Science categories.
Julien Benda's classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The "treason of the intellectuals" is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book bearing this title is well known but little understood. This edition is introduced by Roger Kimball. From the time of the pre-Socratics, intellectuals were a breed apart. They were non-materialistic knowledge-seekers who believed in a universal humanism and represented a cornerstone of civilized society. According to Benda, this all began to change in the early twentieth century. In Europe in the 1920s, intellectuals began abandoning their attachment to traditional philosophical and scholarly ideals, and instead glorified particularisms and moral relativism. The "treason" of which Benda writes is the betrayal by the intellectuals of their unique vocation. He criticizes European intellectuals for allowing political commitment to insinuate itself into their understanding of the intellectual vocation, ushering the world into "the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds." From the savage flowering of ethnic and religious hatreds in the Middle East and throughout Europe today to the mendacious demand for political correctness and multiculturalism on college campuses everywhere in the West, the treason of the intellectuals continues to play out its unedifying drama.
Considering Class Theory Culture And The Media In The 21st Century
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-11-06
Considering Class Theory Culture And The Media In The 21st Century written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-06 with Social Science categories.
Considering Class offers international, interdisciplinary perspectives on class analysis today. It explores the gap between the class forces shaping the world and the paucity of class-consciousness at a popular level. The book shows the importance of the cultural struggle.
Intellectuals And Society
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Author : Thomas Sowell
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2012-03-06
Intellectuals And Society written by Thomas Sowell and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-06 with Political Science categories.
The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public opinion in ways that affect the actions of power holders in democratic societies, whether or not those power holders accept the general vision or the particular policies favored by intellectuals. Even government leaders with disdain or contempt for intellectuals have had to bend to the climate of opinion shaped by those intellectuals. Intellectuals and Society not only examines the track record of intellectuals in the things they have advocated but also analyzes the incentives and constraints under which their views and visions have emerged. One of the most surprising aspects of this study is how often intellectuals have been proved not only wrong, but grossly and disastrously wrong in their prescriptions for the ills of society -- and how little their views have changed in response to empirical evidence of the disasters entailed by those views.