The public intellectual : between philosophy and politics /
The editors bring together a wide variety of noted scholars to discuss the characteristics, nature, and role of public thinkers. By looking at scholarly life in the West, this work explores the relationship between thought and action, ideas and events, reason and history.
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Rowman & Littlefield,
2003
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman
- Theory
- The Rise of the Public Intellectual
- What Is an Intellectual? / Arthur M. Melzer
- A Platonic Perspective on the Idea of the Public Intellectual / Thomas L. Pangle
- The Idea of the Public Intellectual in the Age of the Enlightenment / Paul A. Rahe
- Rousseau's Critique of the Public Intellectual in the Age of the Enlightenment / Christopher Kelly
- The Founding Fathers and the Creation of Public Opinion / Gordon S. Wood
- The Public Intellectual in the Twentieth Century
- The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual in American History / John Patrick Diggins
- The Decline of the Public Intellectual and the Rise of the Pundit / Josef Joffe
- The Public Intellectual and the Experience of Totalitarianism / Pierre Hassner
- The Peripheral Insider: Raymond Aron and the Wages of Reason / Tony Judt
- Gray Is Beautiful / Adam Michnik
- Practice
- The Professional Scholar as Public Intellectual: Reflections Prompted by Karl Mannheim, Robert K. Merton, and C. Wright Mills / Ira Katznelson
- Public Philosophy and International Feminism / Martha C. Nussbaum
- Wit Irony Fun Games / Saul Bellow.
