num_pages: 198
description: The intellectual is an endangered species. In place of such figures as Bertrand Russell, Raymond Williams or Hannah Arendt - people with genuine learning, breadth of vision and a concern for public issues - we now have only facile pundits, think-tank apologists, and spin doctors. In the age of the knowledge economy, we have somehow managed to combine the widest ever participation in higher education with the most dumbed-down of cultures.In this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy - and why we need to recreate a public sphere in which intellectuals and the general public can talk to each other again.
language: English
title: Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
titlecomplete: Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
genres: Cultural, Politics, Education, Philosophy, Society, Nonfiction, Sociology
ratings_count: 188
publisher: Continuum