The Public Intellectual Between Philosophy and Politics

by Melzer, Arthur M.; Zinman, Richard M.; Bellow, Saul; Diggins, John Patrick; Hassner, Pierre; Joffe, Josef; Judt, Tony; Katznelson, Ira; Kelly, Christopher J.; Michnik, Adam; Nussbaum, Martha; Pangle, Thomas A.; Rahe, Paul A.; Weinberger, Jerry; Wood, Gord

• ISBN13: 9780742508156
• ISBN10: 0742508153
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-12
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The editors bring together a wide variety of noted scholars to discuss the characteristics, nature, and role of public thinkers. By looking at scholarly life in the West, this work explores the relationship between thought and action, ideas and events, reason and history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Theory
The Rise of the Public Intellectual
What Is an Intellectual?	p. 3
A Platonic Perspective on the Idea of the Public Intellectual	p. 15
The Idea of the Public Intellectual in the Age of the Enlightenment	p. 27
Rousseau's Critique of the Public Intellectual in the Age of the Enlightenment	p. 53
The Founding Fathers and the Creation of Public Opinion	p. 67
The Public Intellectual in the Twentieth Century
The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual in American History	p. 91
The Decline of the Public Intellectual and the Rise of the Pundit	p. 109
The Public Intellectual and the Experience of Totalitarianism	p. 123
The Peripheral Insider: Raymond Aron and the Wages of Reason	p. 140
Gray Is Beautiful	p. 177
Practice
The Professional Scholar as Public Intellectual: Reflections Prompted by Karl Mannheim, Robert K. Merton, and C. Wright Mills	p. 189
Public Philosophy and International Feminism	p. 201
Wit Irony Fun Games	p. 234
Index	p. 249
About the Contributors	p. 263
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