Public Intellectuals
An Endangered Species?
Published on 20. February 2006
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-7425-4254-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 volume 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. At a time when many argue that public intellectuals are dying out, the book addresses questions such as who qualifies as a public intellectual? Have their ranks thinned out and their qualities diminished? What is that special service that public intellectuals are supposed to render for the body politic? And, above all, is society being shortchanged?
Reviews / Votes
Public Intellectuals collects many of the finest essays produced on this topic in recent decades, and Etzioni's Introduction brings clarity to a topic that is all too often the victim of partisanship, vague impressions, and unreliable statistics. Anyone interested in the unique role of intellectuals with public voices will profit from this volume. -- William A. Galston, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Scholars of all types will find material of interest. Personal favorites include Lewis Coser's discussion of intellectuals as celebrities, Theodore Draper's essay on intellectuals in politics, Joseph Epstein's reflections on public intellectuals in the 1950s and 1960s and the Basic Book forum on the future of public intellectuals. -- 2007 * Political Studies Review * Amitai Etzioni is one of America's most creative public intellectuals, and this collection of articles will be an important challenge to the many in academia who use their brilliant talents to address trivia and the many in the media who address important issues but without the level of intellectual sophistication that Etzioni and the other writers in this collection bring to the table. -- Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, TikkunMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-4254-9 (9780742542549)
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Persons
Amitai Etzioni is University Professor at George Washington University. He is the author and editor of many influential books, including The Spirit of Community and The New Golden Rule. Alyssa Bowditch is an executive assistant at the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies.
Content
Part 1 Introduction: "Are Public Intellectuals an Endangered Species"
Part 2 What are Public Intellectuals? Definition and Overview
Chapter 3 Public Intellectuals, Public Life, and the University
Chapter 4 The Future of the Public Intellectual: A Forum
Part 5 Roles of Public Intellectuals
Chapter 6 Intellectuals, Dissent and Bureaucrats
Chapter 7 Why Public Intellectuals?
Chapter 8 The Calling of the Public Intellectual
Chapter 9 Forum
Part 10 The Divide: Academic vs. Free-Standing Public Intellectuals
Chapter 11 The Public Intellectual, Service Learning, and Activist Research
Chapter 12 Race and the Public Intellectual: A Conversation with Michael Eric Dyson
Chapter 13 In Over Their Heads
Chapter 14 Forum
Part 15 On the Decline of Public Intellectuals
Chapter 16 The Intellectual: Will He Wither Away?
Chapter 17 The Graying of the Intellectuals
Chapter 18 Intellectuals After the Revolution
Chapter 19 Intellectuals- Public and Otherwise
Chapter 20 Forum
Part 21 A Continuing Presence: Public Intellectuals and Change
Chapter 22 Intellectuals in Politics
Chapter 23 The Intellectuals as Celebrity
Chapter 24 Forum
Part 25 Speaking Truth to Power
Chapter 26 On Knowledge and Power
Chapter 27 The Reith Lectures: Speaking Truth to Power
Chapter 28 All the Presidents' Brains
Part 2 What are Public Intellectuals? Definition and Overview
Chapter 3 Public Intellectuals, Public Life, and the University
Chapter 4 The Future of the Public Intellectual: A Forum
Part 5 Roles of Public Intellectuals
Chapter 6 Intellectuals, Dissent and Bureaucrats
Chapter 7 Why Public Intellectuals?
Chapter 8 The Calling of the Public Intellectual
Chapter 9 Forum
Part 10 The Divide: Academic vs. Free-Standing Public Intellectuals
Chapter 11 The Public Intellectual, Service Learning, and Activist Research
Chapter 12 Race and the Public Intellectual: A Conversation with Michael Eric Dyson
Chapter 13 In Over Their Heads
Chapter 14 Forum
Part 15 On the Decline of Public Intellectuals
Chapter 16 The Intellectual: Will He Wither Away?
Chapter 17 The Graying of the Intellectuals
Chapter 18 Intellectuals After the Revolution
Chapter 19 Intellectuals- Public and Otherwise
Chapter 20 Forum
Part 21 A Continuing Presence: Public Intellectuals and Change
Chapter 22 Intellectuals in Politics
Chapter 23 The Intellectuals as Celebrity
Chapter 24 Forum
Part 25 Speaking Truth to Power
Chapter 26 On Knowledge and Power
Chapter 27 The Reith Lectures: Speaking Truth to Power
Chapter 28 All the Presidents' Brains