ABSTRACT
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 of the intellectual in American society
Covering regions as diverse as Israel, Algeria, Britain, Ireland, central Europe and America, this collection considers the question of whether the intellectual can still lay claim to the language of truth. In answering, this study tells us much about the modern world in which we live.
Coverage includes the following thinkers: Gramsci, Weber, Yeats, Auden, Levy, Mailer, Walzer, Marx and many more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |63 pages
Insiders and outsiders
chapter |20 pages
Between autonomy and responsibility
part |60 pages
Priestly interventions
chapter |27 pages
A product of history, not a cause?
part |76 pages
Slavonic jesters
chapter |20 pages
Revolutionaries and dissidents
part |77 pages
American agnostics
chapter |23 pages
Freedom, commitment and Marxism
chapter |23 pages
The tragic predicament
part |13 pages
Epilogue