03324nam 2200649Ia 450 991045558530332120200520144314.00-585-46322-0(CKB)111087027766814(EBL)1318898(OCoLC)854520970(SSID)ssj0000230439(PQKBManifestationID)11192953(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000230439(PQKBWorkID)10196519(PQKB)10973272(MiAaPQ)EBC1318898(Au-PeEL)EBL1318898(CaPaEBR)ebr10744702(CaONFJC)MIL507393(OCoLC)52801907(EXLCZ)9911108702776681420020619d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe public intellectual[electronic resource] between philosophy and politics /edited by Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard ZinmanLanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefieldc20031 online resource (279 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-299-76142-9 0-7425-0814-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman; Part I: Theory; 1 What Is an Intellectual? Arthur M. Melzer; 2 A Platonic Perspective on the Idea of the Public Intellectual Thomas L. Pangle; 3 The Idea of the Public Intellectual in the Age of the Enlightenment PaulA. Rahe; 4 Rousseau's Critique of the Public Intellectual in the Age of the Enlightenment Christopher Kelly; 5 The Founding Fathers and the Creation of Public Opinion Gordon S. Wood6 The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual in American History John Patrick Diggins7 The Decline of the Public Intellectual and the Rise of the Pundit Josef Joffe; 8 The Public Intellectual and the Experience of Totalitarianism Pierre Hassner; 9 The Peripheral Insider: Raymond Aron and the Wages of Reason Tony Judt; 10 Gray Is Beautiful Adam Michnik; Part II: Practice; 11 The Professional Scholar as Public Intellectual: Reflections Prompted by Karl Mannheim, Robert K. Merton,and C. Wright Mills Ira Katznelson; 12 Public Philosophy and International Feminism Martha C. Nussbaum13 Wit Irony Fun Games Saul BellowIndex; About the ContributorsThe editors bring together a wide variety of noted scholars to discuss the characteristics, nature, and role of public thinkers. By looking at scholarly life in the West, this work explores the relationship between thought and action, ideas and events, reason and history.IntellectualsIntellectual lifeProgressElectronic books.Intellectuals.Intellectual life.Progress.305.2/52Melzer Arthur M870612Weinberger Jerry1944-246700Zinman M. Richard870613MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455585303321The public intellectual1943473UNINA