The Public Intellectual: Between Philosophy and Politics

Title Page......Page 2
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
I - THEORY......Page 14
 1 - What Is an Intellectual?......Page 15
  NOTES......Page 24
 2 - A Platonic Perspective on the Idea of the Public Intellectual......Page 26
  NOTE......Page 36
 3 - The Idea of the Public Intellectual in the Age of the Enlightenment......Page 37
  THEORY AND PRACTICE IN EARLY MODERNITY......Page 40
  POLITICAL GEOMETRY......Page 42
  THE CREED OF THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL......Page 47
  RATIONALISM IN POLITICS......Page 48
  HINDSIGHT......Page 53
  NOTES......Page 55
 4 - Rousseau’s Critique of the Public Intellectual in the Age of the Enlightenment......Page 63
  NAMING NAMES......Page 64
  THE CITIZEN AND THE PHILOSOPHER......Page 67
  AUTHORS AND PHILOSOPHERS......Page 70
  CONCLUSION......Page 72
  NOTES......Page 73
 5 - The Founding Fathers and the Creation of Public Opinion......Page 77
  NOTES......Page 94
 6 - The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual in American History......Page 101
  THE FUSION OF POWER AND INTELLECT AND ITS BREAKDOWN: SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES......Page 102
  THE ALIENATION OF THE INTELLECTUAL: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY......Page 104
  THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: FROM PROGRESSIVISM TO MARXISM......Page 106
  THE COLD WAR, MCCARTHYISM, AND THE FATE OF THE INTELLECTUAL......Page 109
  NOTES......Page 115
  I......Page 118
  II......Page 120
  III......Page 123
  IV......Page 125
  V......Page 127
  NOTES......Page 128
 8 - The Public Intellectual and the Experience of Totalitarianism......Page 131
  A DREAM FOR THE FUTURE: TOTALITARIANISM AS THE INTELLECTUALS’ UTOPIA......Page 132
  FROM PARADISE TO HELL: THE INTELLECTUALS’ UTOPIA AS A REALITY......Page 135
  THE GREAT MISUNDERSTANDING: MURDEROUS TYRANNIES AS UTOPIAS FOR FREE INTELLECTUALS......Page 139
  AFTER VICTORY: POSTTOTALITARIAN BLUES......Page 144
  NOTES......Page 145
 9 - The Peripheral Insider: Raymond Aron and the Wages of Reason......Page 148
  NOTES......Page 178
  II......Page 184
  III......Page 185
  V......Page 186
  VI......Page 187
  VII......Page 188
  IX......Page 190
  NOTE......Page 191
II - PRACTICE......Page 192
 11 - The Professional Scholar as Public Intellectual: Reflections Prompted by Karl Mannheim, Robert K. Merton, and C. Wright Mills......Page 193
  UNRESOLVED PERPLEXITIES......Page 195
  MANNHEIM AS GUIDE......Page 198
  NOTES......Page 202
  TWO WOMEN TRYING TO FLOURISH......Page 205
  THE WIDER PROJECT......Page 208
  INDIAN WOMEN AND FEMINIST INTERNATIONALISM......Page 219
  THEORY AND PRACTICE......Page 225
  NOTES......Page 228
 13 - Wit Irony Fun Games......Page 237
Index......Page 250
About the Contributors......Page 267