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What has been the role of intellectuals in the twentieth century and what, if any, will be their role in the future? Frequently scorned and reviled, intellectuals have nevertheless played a vital part in shaping this century. Since their original intervention in the Dreyfus affair to the case of Salmon Rushdie, intellectuals have aroused controversy. Jeremy Jennings and Tony Kemp-Welch introduce a collection of essays from leading academics in the field of political theory. After their introduction on the major issues confronting intellectuals, this book explores the various different 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 addresseing this question Intellectuals in Politics tells us much about the modern world in which we live. Edward Acton, University of East Anglia, Lahouri Addi, Universite de Lyon II, Richard Bellam, University of Reading, Steven Biel, University of Harvard, George Boyce
What has been the role of intellectuals in the twentieth century and what, if any, will be their role in the future? Frequently scorned and reviled, intellectuals have nevertheless played a vital part in shaping this century. Since their original intervention in the Dreyfus affair to the case of Salmon Rushdie, intellectuals have aroused controversy. Jeremy Jennings and Tony Kemp-Welch introduce a collection of essays from leading academics in the field of political theory. After their introduction on the major issues confronting intellectuals, this book explores the various different 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 addresseing this question Intellectuals in Politics tells us much about the modern world in which we live. Edward Acton, University of East Anglia, Lahouri Addi, Universite de Lyon II, Richard Bellam, University of Reading, Steven Biel, University of Harvard, George Boyce
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;
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.
It is a delight to read an edited volume of such even quality and with such thematic consistency. This reviewer hopes that future compilers of edited volumes will be so judicious in their selection of contributiors and topics. If the essays' message for the future is mostly discouraging, those readers who feel condemned by circumstance to the caste of intellectuals will find this book relentlessly instructive on the mistakes of the past.
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