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The intellectual is an endangered species. In place of such figures 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.
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Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?, Frank Furedi
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- Released
- 2006
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- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
- Subtitle
- including 'a reply to my critics'
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Frank Furedi
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 198
- ISBN10
- 0826490964
- ISBN13
- 9780826490964
- Series
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- Tags
- Politics, Education & School System, Professional Literature, Society, Culture and Society, Great Britain, Popular Culture, Physical Education, Intellectuals, Social Classes
- Description
- The intellectual is an endangered species. In place of such figures 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.