Intellectuals in politics and academia : culture in the age of hype / Russell Jacoby.

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Intellectuals in politics and academia : culture in the age of hype / Russell Jacoby.

9783031076466 (electronic bk.)
303107646X (electronic bk.)
9783031076459
3031076451

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

©2022

English

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10.1007/978-3-031-07646-6 doi

HM728

305.5/52

This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics. Russell Jacobys seminal The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (1987, 2000) introduced the term "public intellectual" and gave rise to heated controversy. Here Jacoby assesses contemporary public intellectuals, their profound failings and limited achievements. The book includes biting appraisals of well-known intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky, Hannah Arendt, and Bernard-Henri Levy, as well as interventions on violence, utopia and multiculturalism. Russell Jacoby is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, USA, and the author of the author of nine books, including Repression of Psychoanalysis (1983), Bloodlust (2011), and most recently On Diversity (2020).

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Political philosophy and public purpose.

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