The public intellectual : between philosophy and politics / edited by Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melzer, Arthur M.

Weinberger, Jerry, 1944-

Zinman, M. Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals.

Intellectual life.

Progress.

Physical Description:

xiii, 265 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I Theory

The Rise of the Public Intellectual

1 What Is an Intellectual? / Arthur M. Melzer 3

2 A Platonic Perspective on the Idea of the Public Intellectual / Thomas L. Pangle 15

3 The Idea of the Public Intellectual in the Age of the Enlightenment / Paul A. Rahe 27

4 Rousseau's Critique of the Public Intellectual in the Age of the Enlightenment / Christopher Kelly 53

5 The Founding Fathers and the Creation of Public Opinion / Gordon S. Wood 67

The Public Intellectual in the Twentieth Century

6 The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual in American History / John Patrick Diggins 91

7 The Decline of the Public Intellectual and the Rise of the Pundit / Josef Joffe 109

8 The Public Intellectual and the Experience of Totalitarianism / Pierre Hassner 123

9 The Peripheral Insider: Raymond Aron and the Wages of Reason / Tony Judt 140

10 Gray Is Beautiful / Adam Michnik 177

Part II Practice

11 The Professional Scholar as Public Intellectual: Reflections Prompted by Karl Mannheim, Robert K. Merton, and C. Wright Mills / Ira Katznelson 189

12 Public Philosophy and International Feminism / Martha C. Nussbaum 201

13 Wit Irony Fun Games / Saul Bellow 234.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742508145

0742508153

OCLC:

50072425