1st Edition

Intellectuals and Cultural Policy

Edited By JEREMY AHEARNE, OLIVER BENNETT Copyright 2007
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

255 Pages
by Routledge

Intellectuals and policy analysts might appear to inhabit two different worlds. Intellectuals aspire to articulate issues of universal concern; policy analysts attend to the detail of specific measures and programmes. How far do these common assumptions match up to reality? What happens when intellectuals engage with cultural institutions and the machinery of government? And how far is cultural... Read more
Introduction 1. Oliver Bennett: Intellectuals, Romantics and Cultural Policy 4. Charles Acland: Harold Innis, Cultural Policy and Residual Media 5. Bill Buxton: Fernand Dumont and the Vicissitudes of Cultural Policy in Québec 6. Jim McGuigan: Richard Hoggart – Public Intellectual 8. Eleonora Belfiore: The Unacknowledged Legacy: Plato, the Republic and Cultural Policy 11. Laurie Koloski: The Urge to Judge: Intellectuals and Communism in Postwar Poland, Past and Present 13. Jeremy Ahearne: Public Intellectuals and Cultural Policy in France 14. David Looseley: Intellectuals and Cultural Policy in France: Antoine Hennion and the sociology of music

Biography

Dr Jeremy Ahearne is Reader in the Department of French Studies at the University of Warwick. Professor Oliver Bennett is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick.