In these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said
explores what it means to be an intellectual today. Are intellectuals merely the servants of …

What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described
themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien …

TWENTY-YEARS AGO, Dwight Macdonald published a series of articles in Politics on the
responsibility of peoples and, specifically, the responsibility of intellectuals. I read them as …

In one of his most famous essays, Noam Chomsky lays out the idea that intellectuals' relative
privilege imbues them with greater responsibility—one that was to be the guiding principle of …

The data reported upon in The American Intellectual Elite2 (hence forth AIE) were collected
in 1970 and represented intellectuals who in the late 1960's wrote in leading intellectual …

A valuable counter to the Reagan-Bush-Bennett-Bloom backlash, these essays (by many of
the usual left suspects--Aronowitz, Said, Ehrenreich, et al.) analyze and evaluate the …

The social role of intellectuals was a pervasive motif in Max Weber's thought, particularly in
his works on religion and politics. In his study of world religions, Weber asked such …

The sociology of intellectuals has adopted three fundamentally distinct approaches to its
subject. The Dreyfusards, Julien Benda,“new class” theorists, and Pierre Bourdieu treated …

Harvard University now boasts of a great number of accomplished historians whose
interests and methods align them primarily—though not necessarily exclusively—with …

Lewis A. Coser takes readers from the coffeehouses of 18th-century London to the mass-
culture industries of today in search of a definition for the intellectual. Describing the settings …