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Public intellectuals and their discontents : from Europe to Iran / Yadullah Shahibzadeh.

9783030565886 (electronic bk.)
3030565882 (electronic bk.)
9783030565879 hardcover
9783030565879
3030565874

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

English

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10.1007/978-3-030-56588-6 doi

HM728 .S53 2021

305.55209

This book addresses the ways in which the figure of the intellectuals and their relationship to the public has been theorized through the conceptualizations of bureaucracy, democracy, and communism as universal processes from the 19th century to the present. Starting with Hegel and Marx, the author looks at the rise of the figure of the universal intellectual in various forms, before turning to what is presented as a transformation of the figure of the intellectual into 'the public intellectual' advanced by the New Philosophies and the critical response offered by Edward Said. The study presents two comparative case studies: the Iranian Revolution and the public intellectuals in Europe, specifically in Norway, before concluding with a focus on the decay of the figure of the intellectuals and highlighting Ranciere's critique of the intellectual/masses distinction. Yadullah Shahibzadeh is author of The Iranian Political Language: From the late Nineteenth Century to the Present (2015) and Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran: An Intellectual History (2016). Previously, he taught at the University of Oslo, Norway.-- Provided by publisher.

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