Where have all the intellectuals gone?: including a reply to Furedi's critics Furedi, Frank
Publication details: London Continuum 2004Edition: 2nd edDescription: viii, 188 pISBN:- 9780826490964
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-161) and index.
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. (S ource: www.alibris.com)
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