What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the
Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues that we no longer have …

For some of the world's great thinkers, including Aristotle, Aquinas, and Hegel, philosophy is
a vast system of fixed, capital-T Truth for humankind to discover, explore and comprehend …

Intellectuals occupy a paradoxical position in contemporary American culture as they
struggle both to maintain their critical independence and to connect to the larger society. In …

Abstract Pythagoras--Confucius--Heracleitus--Parmenides--Zeno of Elea--Socrates--
Democritus--Plato--Aristotle--Mencius--Zhuangzi--Pyrrhon of Elis--Epicurus--Zeno of Citium …

Page 1 THE OUTLOOK FOR INTELLIGENCE from BOLLINGEN SERIES XLV The Collected
Works of Paul Valéry Edited by Jackson Mathews VOLUME IO Page 2 Page 3 PAUL …

Abstract Great Thinkers of the Western World is a concise and authoritative guide to the
principal theoretical ideas of the outstanding thinkers in Western history. From Parmenides …

Whether intellectuals are counter-cultural escapists corrupting the young or secular prophets
leading us to prosperity, they are a fixture of modern political life. In The Public Intellectual …

Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential
educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity …

There will be no coyness here. The reader will not be teased. He will not be left conjecturing,
page after page, when he will be given the correct definition of intelligence. No. Here it is up …

Combining history with social theory, this book offers a bold reassessment of the role of
radical intellectuals in public life. It explores the potential impact of intellectuals working for …