Author: Edward ShilsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The Intellectuals and the Powers and Other Essays
Author: Edward ShilsThe Intellectuals and the Powers and Others Essays
Author: Essays on the intellectual powers of man
Author: Thomas ReidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free will and determinism
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Selected Papers of Edward Shils: The intellectuals and the powers, and other essays
Author: Edward ShilsEssays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
Author: Thomas ReidPublisher:
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Category : Intellect
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
Author: Edward W. SaidPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674003026
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays offers evidence of how much the fully engaged critical mind can contribute to the reservoir of value, thought, and action essential to our lives and culture.
Intellectuals
Author: Bruce RobbinsPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816618316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A valuable counter to the Reagan-Bush-Bennett-Bloom backlash, these essays (by many of the usual left suspects--Aronowitz, Said, Ehrenreich, et al.) analyze and evaluate the situatedness of intellectuals with respect to the media, government bureaucracy, the university, and the Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Author: Noam ChomskyPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620973642
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Selected by Newsweek as one of “14 nonfiction books you’ll want to read this fall” Fifty years after it first appeared, one of Noam Chomsky’s greatest essays will be published for the first time as a timely stand-alone book, with a new preface by the author As a nineteen-year-old undergraduate in 1947, Noam Chomsky was deeply affected by articles about the responsibility of intellectuals written by Dwight Macdonald, an editor of Partisan Review and then of Politics. Twenty years later, as the Vietnam War was escalating, Chomsky turned to the question himself, noting that "intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments" and to analyze their "often hidden intentions." Originally published in the New York Review of Books, Chomsky's essay eviscerated the "hypocritical moralism of the past" (such as when Woodrow Wilson set out to teach Latin Americans "the art of good government") and exposed the shameful policies in Vietnam and the role of intellectuals in justifying it. Also included in this volume is the brilliant "The Responsibility of Intellectuals Redux," written on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, which makes the case for using privilege to challenge the state. As relevant now as it was in 1967, The Responsibility of Intellectuals reminds us that "privilege yields opportunity and opportunity confers responsibilities." All of us have choices, even in desperate times.
Essays on the Active Powers of Man
Author: Thomas ReidPublisher:
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Category : Act (Philosophy)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Taking it Big
Author: Stanley AronowitzPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231135408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the "public intellectual" in postwar America and laid the political foundations for the rise of the New Left in the 1960s. This book reconstructs this icon's formation and the new dimension of American political life that followed his work.