Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting 21st Century Philistinism - Couverture rigide

Furedi, Frank

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0826467695 ISBN 13 : 9780826467690

Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2004

Synopsis

The Intellectual is an endangered species. In place of such figures 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Frank Furedi is reader in Sociology at the University of Kent. His previous books include Culture of Fear (Continuum), Paranoid Parenting (Penguin) and Therapy Culture (Routledge).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826467695
• ISBN 13: 9780826467690
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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