1st Edition

Intellectuals in Politics From the Dreyfus Affair to Salman Rushdie

Edited By Jeremy Jennings, Tony Kemp-Welch Copyright 1997
312 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

After an introduction to the major issues confronting intellectuals, this book explores the various aspects of the intellectual's role including: * philosophers and academics who have tried to define the function of the intellectual * how intellectuals have assumed the status of the conscience of the nation and the voice of the oppressed * the interaction of intellectuals with Marxism * the place... Read more
Chapter 1 The century of the intellectual, Jeremy Jennings, Tony Kemp-Welch; Part 1 Insiders and outsiders; Chapter 2 The intellectual as social critic, Richard Bellamy; Chapter 3 Between autonomy and responsibility, Alan Scott; Chapter 4 Of treason, blindness and silence, Jeremy Jennings; Part 2 Priestly interventions; Chapter 5 Algeria and the dual image of the intellectual, Lahouari Addi; Chapter 6 Between the word and the land, Shlomo Sand; Chapter 7 A product of history, not a cause?, D. George Boyce; Part 3 Slavonic jesters; Chapter 8 Revolutionaries and dissidents, Edward Acton; Chapter 9 Politics and the Polish intellectuals, 1945–89, Tony Kemp-Welch; Chapter 10 Intellectuals and socialism, Neil Harding; Part 4 American agnostics; Chapter 11 Freedom, commitment and Marxism, Steven Biel; Chapter 12 The tragic predicament, George Cotkin; Chapter 13 Are intellectuals a dying species?, David L. Schalk; epilogue Epilogue; Chapter 14 ‘What truth? For whom and where?’, Martin Hollis;

Biography

Jeremy Jennings is Reader in Political Theory at the University of Birmingham.,
Anthony Kemp-Welch is the Dean of the School of Economic and Social Studies at the University of East Anglia.