Description |
1 online resource (viii, 282 pages) : illustrations, map |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Intellectuals and their Publics: Perspectives from the Social Sciences; Part One Provocations; 1 Public Intellectuals and Civil Society; 2 Can Women Be Intellectuals?; 3 Terrorism and the Betrayal of the Intellectuals; Part Two Complications; 4 European Civil Society and the European Intellectual: What Is, and How Does One Become, a European; 5 What Influence? Public Intellectuals, the State and Civil Society. |
Summary |
The ever changing role of an intellectual in this new age of political uncertainty is innovatively focused on within this exciting collection of essays. Its provocative studies and multifaceted responses promote a vigorous debate of individual case studies and will be of particular interest for sociologists, political theorists and historians of ideas. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Intellectuals.
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Intellectuals. |
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Intellectuals -- Political activity.
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Intellectuals -- Political activity. |
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Intellectuals -- Case studies.
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Intellectual life -- Case studies.
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Intellectual life. |
Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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Added Author |
Hess, Andreas.
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Lyon, E. Stina.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Fleck, Christian, 1954- Intellectuals and their publics. Farnham, UK : Ashgate, ©2009 (DLC) 2008038856 |
ISBN |
9780754675402 (Cloth) |
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0754675408 (Cloth) |
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9780754696551 (electronic book) |
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0754696553 (electronic book) |
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1282054619 |
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9781282054615 |
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