The Reckless Mind
Title | The Reckless Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Lilla |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN | 1590170717 |
This text is a study of how a number of important 20th century European intellectuals came to support tyrannical regimes and totalitarian political ideas.
Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics
Title | Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Gavin Smith |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2014-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1782383018 |
Contemporary forms of capitalism and the state require close analytic attention to reveal the conditions of possibility for effective counter-politics. On the other hand the practice of collective politics needs to be studied through historical ethnography if we are to understand what might make people’s actions effective. This book suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. Gavin Smith opens and closes this series of interlinked essays by proposing a concise framework for untangling what he calls “the society of capital” and subsequently a potentially controversial way of seeing its contemporary features. This book tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.
Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals
Title | Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals PDF eBook |
Author | David L. Swartz |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2013-04-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0226925021 |
Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that symbolic power—the power to dominate—is solely symbolic. He emphasized that symbolic power helps create and maintain social hierarchies, which form the very bedrock of political life. By the time of his death in 2002, Bourdieu had become a leading public intellectual, and his argument about the more subtle and influential ways that cultural resources and symbolic categories prevail in power arrangements and practices had gained broad recognition. In Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals, David L. Swartz delves deeply into Bourdieu’s work to show how central—but often overlooked—power and politics are to an understanding of sociology. Arguing that power and politics stand at the core of Bourdieu’s sociology, Swartz illuminates Bourdieu’s political project for the social sciences, as well as Bourdieu’s own political activism, explaining how sociology is not just science but also a crucial form of political engagement.
Intellectuals in Politics
Title | Intellectuals in Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Nissan Oren |
Publisher | Magnes Press |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Modern politics has ushered in the era of the professional adviser, the expert co-opted from the world of ideas and the world of actions. From Woodrow Wilson through the Carter administration the increasing presence of intellectuals in the making of national and international policy has highlighted the interdependence between the practice of statecraft and the study of statecraft. What are the moral responsibilities, the social obligations, the philosophical motivations of members of the community of scholars brought into contact with the political destines of entire nations? What happens when expertise meets power? These are some of the thoughts presented here in the collection of essays by eight leading intellectuals.
Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe
Title | Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Andr s Boz¢ki |
Publisher | Central European University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9789639116214 |
Focusing on the role of intellectuals in the political transition of the late 1980s and early 1990s and their participation in the political life of the new democracies of Central Europe, this book presents original essays from authors who discuss the eight countries in the region.
The Public Intellectual
Title | The Public Intellectual PDF eBook |
Author | Richard M. Zinman |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2004-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0585463220 |
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: Between Philosophy and Politics, Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman bring together a wide variety of noted scholars to discuss the characteristics, nature, and role of public thinkers. By looking at scholarly life in the West, this work explores the relationship between thought and action, ideas and events, reason and history.
Taking it Big
Title | Taking it Big PDF eBook |
Author | Stanley Aronowitz |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231135408 |
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the "public intellectual" in postwar America and laid the political foundations for the rise of the New Left in the 1960s. This book reconstructs this icon's formation and the new dimension of American political life that followed his work.