New public spheres : recontextualizing the intellectual / / edited by Peter Thijssen [and four others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815965003321
• Autore: Thijssen Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Burlington : , : Ashgate Publishing Company, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-315-59806-X; 1-317-08815-8; 1-317-08814-X; 1-4094-6093-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Collana: Public intellectuals and the sociology of knowledge
• Altri autori (Persone): ThijssenPeter
• Disciplina: 302/.14
• Soggetti: Intellectuals - History; Political science - Philosophy; Social participation
• 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: List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Introduction / Peter Thijssen, Walter Weyns and Christiane Timmerman -- History and contemporary developments -- The intellectual in the public sphere : projections, contradictions, and dilemmas since the enlightenment / Harold Mah -- The rise of the embedded intellectual : new forms of public engagement and critique / Patrick Baert & Alan Shipman -- From public to civic intellectuals : political agency and emerging media landscapes / Peter Dahlgren -- Internet and the public intellectual -- Intellectuals, the public sphere and dissemination strategies / France Aubin -- How salonfähig are online political forums? : the curious case of politics.be / Peter Thijssen -- The creation of new public places : a critique of Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel / Frank Maet -- Women and the public sphere -- Immigrant intellectual : the case of Ayaan Hirsi Ali / Odile Heynders -- Building solidarity through relationships : the politics of feminism as an intellectual project in Turkey / Nazan Haydari -- Subcultures in the public sphere -- Public intellectuals and micro-public spheres : a British illustration / Richard McCallum -- Public ; intellectuals and public spheres : who is left to speak to the public? : Yusuf al-Qaradawi : shaper of an agonistic discourse / Zvi Bar'el -- Reputation among the Hungarian intellectual elite / Luca Kristóf -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: New Public Spheres gives a multidisciplinary account of the way in which public intellectuals have constructed their role and position in the public sphere in the past and how they try to voice public concerns and achieve authority again within those fragmented public spheres today.