Public Intellectuals

An Endangered Species?
Herausgeber: Bowditch, Alyssa

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a range of commentaries and studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of public intellectuals, and probes the question of how their voices can be effective in the social, academic and political climates.

Produktdetails

• Rights & Responsibilities
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780742542556
• ISBN-10: 0742542556
• Artikelnr.: 21131194

Autorenporträt

Amitai Etzioni is University Professor at George Washington University. He is the author and editor of many influential books, including The Spirit of Community and The New Golden Rule. Alyssa Bowditch is an executive assistant at the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction: "Are Public Intellectuals an Endangered Species"
Part 2 What are Public Intellectuals? Definition and Overview
Chapter 3 Public Intellectuals, Public Life, and the University
Chapter 4 The Future of the Public Intellectual: A Forum
Part 5 Roles of Public Intellectuals
Chapter 6 Intellectuals, Dissent and Bureaucrats
Chapter 7 Why Public Intellectuals?
Chapter 8 The Calling of the Public Intellectual
Chapter 9 Forum
Part 10 The Divide: Academic vs. Free-Standing Public Intellectuals
Chapter 11 The Public Intellectual, Service Learning, and Activist Research
Chapter 12 Race and the Public Intellectual: A Conversation with Michael
Eric Dyson
Chapter 13 In Over Their Heads
Chapter 14 Forum
Part 15 On the Decline of Public Intellectuals
Chapter 16 The Intellectual: Will He Wither Away?
Chapter 17 The Graying of the Intellectuals
Chapter 18 Intellectuals After the Revolution
Chapter 19 Intellectuals- Public and Otherwise
Chapter 20 Forum
Part 21 A Continuing Presence: Public Intellectuals and Change
Chapter 22 Intellectuals in Politics
Chapter 23 The Intellectuals as Celebrity
Chapter 24 Forum
Part 25 Speaking Truth to Power
Chapter 26 On Knowledge and Power
Chapter 27 The Reith Lectures: Speaking Truth to Power
Chapter 28 All the Presidents' Brains