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Public intellectuals : an endangered species? / edited by Amitai Etzioni and Alyssa Bowditch.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Rights and responsibilities (Lanham, Md.)
- Rights and responsibilities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectuals--United States.
- Intellectuals.
- Social influence.
- Specialists.
- United States.
- Specialists--United States.
- Social influence--United States.
- Political planning--United States.
- Political planning.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 273 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]
- Summary:
- Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a wide range of commentaries and studies, this edited collection demonstrates the unique importance of public intellectuals and probes the timely question of how their voices can continue to be effective in our ever-changing social, academic, and political climates.
- Contents:
- Are Public Intellectuals an Endangered Species? / Amitai Etzioni 1
- Chapter 1 What Are Public Intellectuals? Definition and Overview
- Public Intellectuals, Public Life, and the University / Daniel C. Brouwer, Catherine R. Squires 31
- The Future of the Public Intellectual: A Forum 51
- Chapter 2 Roles of Public Intellectuals
- Intellectuals, Dissent, and Bureaucrats / Irving Howe 71
- Why Public Intellectuals? / Jean Bethke Elshtain 81
- The Calling of the Public Intellectual / Alan Wolfe 91
- Forum / Frances Ferguson 95
- Chapter 3 The Divide: Academic vs. Free-Standing Public Intellectuals
- The Public Intellectual, Service Learning, and Activist Research / Ellen Cushman 101
- Race and the Public Intellectual: A Conversation with Michael Eric Dyson / Sidney I. Dobrin 111
- In Over Their Heads / Richard A. Posner 153
- Forum / Patrick Saveau 157
- Chapter 4 On the Decline of Public Intellectuals
- The Intellectual: Will He Wither Away? / Merle Kling 161
- The Graying of the Intellectuals / Russell Jacoby 165
- Intellectuals After the Revolution / Paul Berman 173
- Intellectuals-Public and Otherwise / Joseph Epstein 185
- Forum / J. Hillis Miller 195
- Chapter 5 A Continuing Presence: Public Intellectuals and Change
- Intellectuals in Politics / Theodore Draper 201
- The Intellectual as Celebrity / Lewis Coser 227
- Forum / Howard Young 241
- Chapter 6 Speaking Truth to Power
- On Knowledge and Power / C. Wright Mills 247
- The Reith Lectures: Speaking Truth to Power / Edward Said 259
- All the Presidents' Brains / Tevi Troy 267.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0742542548
- 0742542556
- OCLC:
- 61859735
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