Public Intellectuals and Their Discontents
ISBN:
978-3-03-056587-9
Auflage:
1st ed. 2021
Verlag:
Springer International Publishing
Land des Verlags:
Schweiz
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.10.2020
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
288
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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.
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Biografische Anmerkung
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.
