New public spheres : recontextualizing the intellectual / edited by Peter Thijssen [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thijssen, Peter.

Contributor:

Thijssen, Peter.

Series:

Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge

Public intellectuals and the sociology of knowledge

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals--History.

Intellectuals.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Social participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

New Public Spheres gives a multidisciplinary account of the way in which public intellectuals have constructed their role and position in the public sphere in the past and how they try to voice public concerns and achieve authority again within those fragmented public spheres today.

Contents:

List of figures

List of tables

Contributors

Introduction / Peter Thijssen, Walter Weyns and Christiane Timmerman

History and contemporary developments

The intellectual in the public sphere : projections, contradictions, and dilemmas since the enlightenment / Harold Mah

The rise of the embedded intellectual : new forms of public engagement and critique / Patrick Baert & Alan Shipman

From public to civic intellectuals : political agency and emerging media landscapes / Peter Dahlgren

Internet and the public intellectual

Intellectuals, the public sphere and dissemination strategies / France Aubin

How salonfähig are online political forums? : the curious case of politics.be / Peter Thijssen

The creation of new public places : a critique of Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel / Frank Maet

Women and the public sphere

Immigrant intellectual : the case of Ayaan Hirsi Ali / Odile Heynders

Building solidarity through relationships : the politics of feminism as an intellectual project in Turkey / Nazan Haydari

Subcultures in the public sphere

Public intellectuals and micro-public spheres : a British illustration / Richard McCallum

Public intellectuals and public spheres : who is left to speak to the public? : Yusuf al-Qaradawi : shaper of an agonistic discourse / Zvi Bar'el

Reputation among the Hungarian intellectual elite / Luca Kristóf

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-59806-X

1-317-08815-8

1-317-08814-X

1-4094-6093-2

9781315598062

OCLC:

861538546