Intellectuals in politics : from the Dreyfus affair to the Salman Rushdie / / edited by Jeremy Jennings and Anthony Kemp-Welch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783881103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997
• ISBN: 1-134-74959-7; 0-203-27907-7; 0-203-44162-1; 1-280-31811-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): JenningsJeremy <1952->; Kemp-WelchA. <1949->
• Disciplina: 305.5/52
• Soggetti: Intellectuals - Political activity - History - 20th century; Sociology - History - 20th century
• 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: Intellectuals in Politics From the Dreyfus Affair to Salman Rushdie; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 The century of the intellectual: from the Dreyfus Affair to Salman Rushdie; Part I Insiders and outsiders; 2 The intellectual as social critic: Antonio Gramsci and Michael Walzer; 3 Between autonomy and responsibility: Max Weber on scholars,academics and intellectuals; 4 Of treason, blindness and silence: dilemmas of the intellectual in modern France; Part II Priestly interventions; 5 Algeria and the dual image of the intellectual; 6 Between the word and the land: intellectuals and the State in Israel7 A product of history, not a cause? Yeats, the 'Auden generation',and the politics of poetry, 1891-1939; Part III Slavonic jesters; 8 Revolutionaries and dissidents: the role of the Russian intellectual in the downfall of Tsarism and Communism; 9 Politics and the Polish intellectuals, 1945-89; 10 Intellectuals and socialism: making and breaking the proletariat; Part IV American agnostics; 11 Freedom, commitment and Marxism: the predicament of independent intellectuals in the United States, 1910-41; 12 The tragic predicament: post-war American intellectuals,acceptance ; and mass culture13 Are intellectuals a dying species? War and the Ivory Tower in the postmodern age; Epilogue; 14 What truth? For whom and where?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This wide-ranging investigation explores the influence of thinkers from diverse intellectual backgrounds on the development of twentieth century culture, and in so doing tells us much about the modern world in which we live.