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Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting 21st Century Philistinism (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short 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...
Full description- Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Published: 26 May 2005
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
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- Categories: Social Groups | Teaching Resources & Education | Philosophy & Theory Of Education
- ISBN 13: 9780826488213 ISBN 10: 0826488218
- Sales rank: 1,084,477
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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.>
