Intellectuals and their publics [[electronic resource] ] : perspectives from the social sciences / / edited by Christian Fleck, Andreas Hess, E. Stina Lyon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782819303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2009
• ISBN: 1-315-58915-X; 1-317-11488-4; 1-317-11487-6; 1-282-05461-9; 9786612054617; 0-7546-9655-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FleckChristian <1954->; HessAndreas; LyonE. Stina
• Disciplina: 305.5/52; 305.552
• Soggetti: Intellectuals; Intellectuals - Political activity; Intellectual life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Intellectuals and their Publics: Perspectives from the Social Sciences; Part One Provocations; 1 Public Intellectuals and Civil Society; 2 Can Women Be Intellectuals?; 3 Terrorism and the Betrayal of the Intellectuals; Part Two Complications; 4 European Civil Society and the European Intellectual: What Is, and How Does One Become, a European; 5 What Influence? Public Intellectuals, the State and Civil Society; 6 Public Intellectuals, East and West: Jan Patocka and Václav Havel in Contention with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Slavoj Žižek7 Public Intellectuals and Totalitarianism: A Century's Debate; Part Three Case Studies; 8 Tocqueville as a Public Intellectual; 9 Tocqueville's Dark ; Shadow: Gustave de Beaumont as Public Sociologist and Intellectual Avant la Lettre; 10 French Sociologists and the Public Space of the Press: Thoughts Based on a Case Study (Le Monde, 1995-2002); 11 You Only See What You Reckon You Know: Max and Marianne Weber in the United States of America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century12 Towards a Sociology of Intellectual Styles of Thought: Differences and Similarities in the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno and Jürgen Habermas; 13 Women as Public Intellectuals: Kerstin Hesselgren and Alva Myrdal; 14 How Hayek Managed to Beat Lazarsfeld: The Different Perception of Two Sub-fields of Social Science; Conclusion Revisiting the Concept of the Public Intellectual; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The ever changing role of an intellectual in this new age of political uncertainty is innovatively focused on within this exciting collection of essays. Its provocative studies and multifaceted responses promote a vigorous debate of individual case studies and will be of particular interest for sociologists, political theorists and historians of ideas.