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 …

Although defined in various ways, intellectuals have often been portrayed as the bearers of
progressive ideas and leaders of progressive historical change. This is especially true in …

Against a backdrop of a hegemonic, global economic arrangement that has spawned
astounding disparities in wealth, this book foregrounds seventeen intellectuals who are …

Ideas can define and transform society, but how healthy is intellectual life today? In a period
when Big Brother refers not to George Orwell but to a reality TV show, and when bright …

In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual—
that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment …

Thomas Bender explores both the nineteenth-century origins and the twentieth-century
configurations of academic intellect in the United States. Periodic" crises" in our academic …

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 …

In this collection, a leading sociologist brings his distinctive method of social criticism to bear
on some of the most significant ideas, political and social events, and thinkers of the late …

The book provides a sophisticated alternative to existing accounts of the role of the
intellectual in modern democracy. Arguing that society suffers from a systemic deliberation …

Intellectual history, as it is practised today, covers a broad spectrum of approaches to the
past: discourse studies in the wake of the'linguistic turn', close textual analysis, intellectual …