ISBN:
9780415149952
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (313 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Intellectuals in Politics : From the Dreyfus Affair to Salman Rushdie
DDC:
305.552
Keywords:
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This wide-ranging investigation explores the influence of thinkers from diverse intellectual backgrounds on the development of twentieth century culture, and in so doing tells us much about the modern world in which we live
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; The century of the intellectual: from the Dreyfus Affair to Salman Rushdie; The intellectual as social critic: Antonio Gramsci and Michael Walzer; Between autonomy and responsibility: Max Weber on scholars, academics and intellectuals; Of treason, blindness and silence: dilemmas of the intellectual in modern France; Algeria and the dual image of the intellectual; Between the word and the land: intellectuals and the State in Israel; A product of history, not a cause? Yeats, the 'Auden generation', and the politics of poetry, 1891 1939
Description / Table of Contents:
Revolutionaries and dissidents: the role of the Russian intellectualin the downfall of Tsarism and CommunismPolitics and the Polish intellectuals, 1945 89; Intellectuals and socialism: making and breaking the proletariat; Freedom, commitment and Marxism: the predicament of independent intellectuals in the United States, 1910 41; The tragic predicament: post-war American intellectuals, acceptance and mass culture; Are intellectuals a dying species? War and the Ivory Tower in the postmodern age; What truth? For whom and where?; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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