Intellectuals in Politics (eBook, ePUB)

From the Dreyfus Affair to Salman Rushdie
Redaktion: Jennings, Jeremy; Kemp-Welch, Tony

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After an introduction to the major issues confronting intellectuals, this book explores the various aspects of the intellectual's role including:
* philosophers and academics who have tried to define the function of the intellectual
* how intellectuals have assumed the status of the conscience of the nation and the voice of the oppressed
* the interaction of intellectuals with Marxism
* the place of the intellectual in American society
Covering regions as diverse as Israel, Algeria, Britain, Ireland, central Europe and America, this collection considers the question of whether the intellectual can still lay claim to the language of truth. In answering, this study tells us much about the modern world in which we live.
Coverage includes the following thinkers: Gramsci, Weber, Yeats, Auden, Levy, Mailer, Walzer, Marx and many more.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134749591
• Artikelnr.: 40464749

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Jennings is Reader in Political Theory at the University of Birmingham., Anthony Kemp-Welch is the Dean of the School of Economic and Social Studies at the University of East Anglia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The century of the intellectual, Jeremy Jennings, Tony Kemp-Welch
Part 1 Insiders and outsiders
Chapter 2 The intellectual as social critic, Richard Bellamy
Chapter 3 Between autonomy and responsibility, Alan Scott
Chapter 4 Of treason, blindness and silence, Jeremy Jennings
Part 2 Priestly interventions
Chapter 5 Algeria and the dual image of the intellectual, Lahouari Addi
Chapter 6 Between the word and the land, Shlomo Sand
Chapter 7 A product of history, not a cause?, D. George Boyce
Part 3 Slavonic jesters
Chapter 8 Revolutionaries and dissidents, Edward Acton
Chapter 9 Politics and the Polish intellectuals, 1945-89, Tony Kemp-Welch
Chapter 10 Intellectuals and socialism, Neil Harding
Part 4 American agnostics
Chapter 11 Freedom, commitment and Marxism, Steven Biel
Chapter 12 The tragic predicament, George Cotkin
Chapter 13 Are intellectuals a dying species?, David L. Schalk
epilogue Epilogue
Chapter 14 'What truth? For whom and where?', Martin Hollis