Intellectual | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-05

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00:00:32 1 Definition
00:02:03 2 Historical definitions
00:06:41 2.1 "Man of letters"
00:07:37 3 Historical background
00:08:06 3.1 19th-century
00:08:15 3.1.1 Britain
00:09:11 3.1.2 Continental Europe
00:11:21 3.1.3 Germany
00:11:44 3.2 In the East
00:13:37 4 Intelligentsia
00:15:10 4.1 Marxist perspective
00:18:57 5 Public intellectual
00:20:46 5.1 Social background
00:22:30 5.2 Academic background
00:23:45 5.3 Public policy role
00:26:20 6 Criticism
00:31:24 6.1 Intelligentsia
00:35:12 7 See also



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An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about society, proposes solutions for its normative problems and gains authority as a public figure. Coming from the world of culture, either as a creator or as a mediator, the intellectual participates in politics either to defend a concrete proposition or to denounce an injustice, usually by rejecting, producing or extending an ideology, or by defending a system of values.