ISBN:
0822381397
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0822324601
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0822324962
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9780822381396
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9780822324607
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9780822324966
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 218 p)
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Anxious Intellects : Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values
DDC:
305.5/52/0973
Keywords:
Intellectuals
;
Intellectuals
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A critical examination of the complex role of intellectuals in contemporary society, including the often contradictory definitions of such roles advocated by intellectuals themselves
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Fundamental Confusion; PART ONE: Cultural Authority, Enlightenment Traditions, and Professional Anxiety; 1. Publicity: Black Intellectuals as Inorganic Representatives; 2. Pedagogy: Enlightened Instruction as Oppressive Discipline; 3. Community: Pragmatism as a Profession of Anxiety; 4. Culture:Western Traditions and Intellectual Treason; PART TWO: Projected Identities, Universal Illusions, and Democratic Discourse; 5. The Critic: Cultural Studies and Adorno's Ghost; 6. The Scientist: Disembodied Intellect and Popular Utopias
Description / Table of Contents:
7. The Professional: Science Wars and Interdisciplinary StudiesConclusion: Tattered Maps; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-211) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381396?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822381396
URL:
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