192 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ideas can define and transform society, but how healthy is intellectual life today? In a period when Big Brother refers not to George Orwell but to a reality TV show, and when bright young things are developing gameshow formats rather than scribbling essays; when thinkers join think tanks to design short-term government policy rather than reflecting on and challenging the status quo, and when the... Read more
Introduction: Ideas, Intellectuals and the Public Dolan Cummings 1. Intellectuals and the Myth of Decline Jeremy Jennings 2. What Genius Once Was: Reflections on the Public Intellectual Sabine Reul 3. Intellectuals for Our Times Alan Hudson 4. Contemporary 'Vehicularity' and 'Romanticism': Debating the Status of Ideas and Intellectuals Gregor MvLennan and Thomas Osbourne 5. Relativists as 'Folk Devils' and Popular Sophistry Robert Eaglestone 6. Limitations of Public in Science and the Rise of New 'Experts' William Durodie 7. Ethics and Knowledge in the Contemporary University Catherine Scott 8. Academics as Intellectuals Ronald Barnett 9. Intellectuals and Education: The Role of University Dennis Hayes 10. What are Universities For? Universities, Knowledge and Intellectuals James Panton 11. A Public or Dissenting Intellectual Sondra Farganis Afterword: The Downsizing of Intellectual Authority Frank Furedi
Biography
Dolan Cummings, Institute of Ideas, London, is the editor of the Institute of Ideas' forthcoming series of occasional papers. He also edits the Institute's reviews website, Culture Wars. He organises the Roundtable Rumbles at the Edinburgh Festival and is the editor of three books in the Debating Matters series. He writes a weekly television column on Spiked and is the author of two pamphlets: Surveillance and the City (1998), and In Search of Sesame Street: Policiing Civility for the 21st Century (1999).
