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Author: George Scialabba Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 278
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Nonfiction. Politics. Literary Criticism. WHAT ARE INTELLECTUALS GOOD FOR? appraises a large gallery of twentieth-century intellectuals, including Randolph Bourne, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, Isaiah Berlin, William F. Buckley Jr., Allan Bloom, Richard Rorty, Stanley Fish, Christopher Lasch, Edward Said, Ellen Willis, and Christopher Hitchens. It also includes two essays on intellectuals and politics and concludes with one on moral consequences of our species cyber-evolution. George Scialabba, a columnist for the Boston Globe and contributor to the Boston Review, Dissent, the American Prospect, and the Nation, is admired by a circle of discerning readers. WHAT ARE INTELLECTUALS GOOD FOR?, his second essay collection, brings his voice to a larger audience. Scott McLemee, the Intellectual Affairs columnist of InsideHigherEd, has contributed a foreword.
Author: George Scialabba Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 278
Book Description
Nonfiction. Politics. Literary Criticism. WHAT ARE INTELLECTUALS GOOD FOR? appraises a large gallery of twentieth-century intellectuals, including Randolph Bourne, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, Isaiah Berlin, William F. Buckley Jr., Allan Bloom, Richard Rorty, Stanley Fish, Christopher Lasch, Edward Said, Ellen Willis, and Christopher Hitchens. It also includes two essays on intellectuals and politics and concludes with one on moral consequences of our species cyber-evolution. George Scialabba, a columnist for the Boston Globe and contributor to the Boston Review, Dissent, the American Prospect, and the Nation, is admired by a circle of discerning readers. WHAT ARE INTELLECTUALS GOOD FOR?, his second essay collection, brings his voice to a larger audience. Scott McLemee, the Intellectual Affairs columnist of InsideHigherEd, has contributed a foreword.
Author: Bernard-Henri Lévy Publisher: Algora Publishing ISBN: 1892941236 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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Abgrall, a practicing psychiatrist and professional criminologist who won a case against the Scientologists in Europe, has spent 15 years researching cult phenomena. Well organized and readable. This book is recommended for public and academic libraries.
Author: Todd C. Ream Publisher: InterVarsity Press ISBN: 0830854827 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 185
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In the midst of a divisive culture, public intellectuals speaking from an evangelical perspective have a critical role to play—within the church and beyond. Representing the church, higher education, journalism, and the nonprofit sector, these world-class scholars and practitioners cast a vision for intellectuals who promote human flourishing.
Author: François Laruelle Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0745681891 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 160
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In this important new book, the leading philosopherFrançois Laruelle examines the role of intellectuals in oursocieties today, specifically with regards to criminal justice. Heargues that, rather than concerning themselves with abstractphilosophical notions like justice, truth and violence,intellectuals should focus on the human victims. Drawing on hisinfluential theory of ‘non-philosophy’, he shows how wecan submit the theorizing of intellectuals to the scrutiny of theeveryday suffering of the victims of crime. In the course of a wide-ranging discussion with Philippe Petit,Laruelle suspends the presumed authority of intellectuals bychallenging the image of the ‘dominant intellectual’exemplified by philosophers such as Sartre, Foucault, Lyotard andDebray. In place of domination, he puts forward instead a theory of‘determination’: the determined intellectual is onewhose character is conditioned by his relationship to the victim,rather than one who attempts to dominate the victim’sexperience through a process of theorizing. While philosophyconsistently takes the voice away from victims of suffering,non-philosophy is able to construct a theory of violence and crimethat gives voice to the victim. This highly original book will be essential reading for allthose interested in contemporary French philosophy and all thoseconcerned with justice in the modern world.
Author: Ian MacLean Publisher: CUP Archive ISBN: 9780521398596 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 340
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Addresses the many problems in defining the relationship of intellectuals to the society in which they live. The contributors come from a wide variety of disciplines, and are drawn from both America and Eastern and Western Europe.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004400281 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 271
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This volume is devoted to the central themes in Iván Szelényi’s sociological oeuvre comprising of empirical explorations and their theoretical refinement in the last 50 years. The contributors have been asked to take interpretive and critical stances on his work, and to clarify the relevance of his insights. Iván Szelényi has been asked to write a concluding chapter, and respond to the present reflections on his work. The ensuing volume discusses Szelényi’s captivating scholarship as being grounded in a complex program for the political economy of socialisms and post-socialist capitalisms, and introduces him as a neoclassical sociologist whose research projects continue to investigate inequalities created by the interaction of markets and redistributive structures in various societies. Contributors include: Dorothee Bohle, Tamás Demeter, Gil Eyal, Béla Greskovits, Michael D. Kennedy, Tamás Kolosi, Karmo Kroos, Victor Nee, David Ost, Iván Szelényi, and Bruce Western.
Author: Bill Schwarz Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1847795714 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 276
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain. Written in an accessible, lively style, with a range of wonderful and distinguished authors. Key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain; study thus far has concentrated on Caribbean literature and how authors ‘write back’ to Britain – this book is the first to consider how they ‘think back’ to Britain. A book of the moment - nothing comparable on the Carribean influence on Britain.. Discusses the influence, amongst others, of C. L. R. James, Una Marson, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay and V. S. Naipaul.
Author: Robert Klitgaard Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 169
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If you’re like many young intellectuals, Christianity may seem quaint at best, or even a sign of an anti-intellectual worldview. The doors of your mind and heart may shut prematurely. If so, this anthology may blow those doors open wide. Some of the world’s most intriguing authors appear here, often in essays without wide circulation. They tackle big, often unspoken questions that resonate deeply. What if you could figure out everything—then what? Where do both science and the humanities stop short? What is a truly fulfilled life? Several chapters describe Jesus’s profound impact on history and philosophy. Many signs point to something more. What might it mean to say that it is Jesus? This collection isn’t about converting minds but energizing them—a set of “intellectual calisthenics” designed to invigorate and strengthen your academic and personal development. Introduction Robert Klitgaard PART I | POSING BIG QUESTIONS 1. What If You Could Figure Out Everything? Then What? Annie Dillard 2. Are the Arts and Humanities Your Thing? How about Science? Do They Halt in the Same Way? Wilson Poon and Tom McLeish 3. Why Is Philosophy So Impractical? Roberto Mangabeira Unger 4. We Human Beings Are Vanishingly Small and Impermanent. Life Is Meaningless. Isn’t it? William James 5. What Is a Full Human Life? Robert Klitgaard PART II | INTRODUCING JESUS 6. What Is Special about Jesus? Adam Gopnik 7. What Does the Crucifixion Signify? Jack Miles 8. What Did Jesus Contribute to Western Philosophy? Leszek Kołakowski 9. How Can One Get from Here to There? Paul Kingsnorth
Author: James R. Hackney Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814737072 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 256
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In this book the author interviews ten legal experts that in the late 20th century changed the way we understand and use theory in law today.
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