Public Intellectuals An Endangered Species?

by Bowditch, Alyssa; Berman, Paul; Brouwer, Daniel C.; Coser, Lewis; Cushman, Ellen; Dobrin, Sidney I.; Draper, Theodore; Elshtain, Jean Bethke; Epstein, Joseph; Etzioni, Amitai; Ferguson, Frances; Jacoby, Russell; Howe, Irving; Kling, Merle; Miller, J Hilli

• ISBN13: 9780742542556
• ISBN10: 0742542556
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-14
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a wide range of commentaries and studies, this edited volume demonstrates the unique importance of public intellectuals and probes the timely question of how their voices can continue to be effective in our ever-changing social, academic and political climates.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Are Public Intellectuals an Endangered Species?	1	(30)
Amitai Etzioni
Chapter 1. What Are Public Intellectuals? Definition and Overview
Public Intellectuals, Public Life, and the University	31	(20)
Daniel C. Brouwer and Catherine R. Squires
The Future of the Public Intellectual: A Forum	51	(20)
Chapter 2. Roles of Public Intellectuals
Intellectuals, Dissent, and Bureaucrats	71	(10)
Irving Howe
Why Public Intellectuals?	81	(10)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
The Calling of the Public Intellectual	91	(4)
Alan Wolfe
Forum	95	(6)
Frances Ferguson
Chapter 3. The Divide: Academic vs. Free-Standing Public Intellectuals
The Public Intellectual, Service Learning, and Activist Research	101	(10)
Ellen Cushman
Race and the Public Intellectual: A Conversation with Michael Eric Dyson	111	(42)
Sidney I. Dobrin
In Over Their Heads	153	(4)
Richard A. Posner
Forum	157	(4)
Patrick Saveau
Chapter 4. On the Decline of Public Intellectuals
The Intellectual: Will He Wither Away?	161	(4)
Merle Kling
The Graying of the Intellectuals	165	(8)
Russell Jacoby
Intellectuals After the Revolution	173	(12)
Paul Berman
Intellectuals—Public and Otherwise	185	(10)
Joseph Epstein
Forum	195	(6)
J. Hillis Miller
Chapter 5. A Continuing Presence: Public intellectuals and Change
Intellectuals in Politics	201	(26)
Theodore Draper
The Intellectual as Celebrity	227	(14)
Lewis Coser
Forum	241	(6)
Howard Young
Chapter 6. Speaking Truth to Power
On Knowledge and Power	247	(12)
C. Wright Mills
The Reith Lectures: Speaking Truth to Power	259	(8)
Edward Said
All the Presidents' Brains	267	(4)
Tevi Troy
About the Contributors	271