Intellectuals and their Publics: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
| By: | Hess, Andreas, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754675402 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409491675 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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How do intellectuals engage with and affect their publics? What is the role of the public intellectual in the new age of political uncertainties? What challenges face female intellectuals and those speaking from an ethnic, national or class position?
This exciting collection responds to these questions by offering a broad-ranging account of the changing role of intellectuals in public life. The volume opens with provocative essays on the idea and role of the public intellectual from Alexander, Evans and Zulaika. Chapters from Rabinbach on intellectuals' responses to totalitarianism, Outhwaite on what it means to be a European intellectual, and Auer