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Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting 21st Century Philistinism (Paperback)
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Short Description for Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?Explains the useful 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.
Full description- Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Published: 09 December 2006
- Format: Paperback 208 pages
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- Categories: Cultural Studies | Social Classes | Philosophy & Theory Of Education | Teaching Of A Specific Subject
- ISBN 13: 9780826490964 ISBN 10: 0826490964
- Sales rank: 236,630
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Full description for Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
The intellectual is an endangered species. In place of such people 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.
