Title: Intellectuals and public life : between radicalism and reform /
Authors: Fink, Leon, 1948-; Leonard, Stephen T., 1954-; Reid, Donald.; Reid, Donald, 1952-
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Intellectuals Political activity.; Intellectual life.
Abstract: Combining history with social theory, this book offers a bold reassessment of the role of radical intellectuals in public life. It explores the potential impact of intellectuals working for social and political change and is important for everyone concerned with such contemporary issues as the future of higher education, the transformation of the public intellectual in Western and non-Western societies, the collapse of socialism, and the paralysis of liberalism.
Contents: Introduction : a genealogy of the politicized intellectual / Stephen T. Leonard -- Habermas, Foucault, and the legacy of Enlightenment intellectuals / Lloyd Kramer -- "Bred as a mechanic" : plebeian intellectuals and popular politics in early nineteenth-century England / James Epstein -- Intellectuals and the German labor movement / Geoff Eley -- Were the Russian intelligenty organic intellectuals? / Jane Burbank -- Régis Debray : Republican in a democratic age / Donald M. Reid -- Social scientists and the state : constructing the knowledge base for public policy, 1880-1920 / Mary O. Furner -- Expert advice : progressive intellectuals and the unraveling of labor reform, 1912-1915 / Leon Fink -- Making women's history : activist historians of women's rights, 1880-1940 / Ellen C. DuBois -- Political uses of alienation : W.E.B. DuBois on politics, race, and culture, 1903-1940 / Thomas C. Holt -- Preferential option for the poor : liberation theology and the end of political innocence / Roberto S. Goizueta -- Elites and democracy : the ideology of intellectuals and the Chinese student protest movement of 1989 / Craig Calhoun.