Intellectuals and the people / Angie Sandhu
- 作者： Sandhu, Angie 1966-
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- 出版： Basingstoke ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2007
- 主題： Intellectuals , Social role
- ISBN： 9780230590267 、 0230590268
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- 書目註：Intellectuals and the People is extensively researched and engages with prominent theorists in order to intervene in contemporary debates about the relation of intellectuals to society. It setsout to demonstrate that discussions of the intellectual and society focus upon the vulnerability ordeclining authority of the intellectual and overlook the extent to which supposed differences betweenintellectuals and 'other people' support wider existing social and political inequalities. Angie Sandhu focuses on the implication of power and authority for intellectuals and their work and arguesagainst the notion that intellectual autonomy is beneficial either for intellectuals or society. She places intellectuals in a more constructive and egalitarian relation to 'other people', and concludesby referring to the promising development in Latin America, in particular the Zapatistas, who are challenging inequalities and hierarchies within theory and practice Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-240) and index
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- 系統號： 005170204 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
Angie Sandhu examines the relation between intellectuals and society through political theory and a consideration of contemporary debates in both Britain and the US. She sets out a new argument that calls for intellectuals to address their own elite locations in society by challenging notions of intellectual difference and autonomy.
內容註
Introduction: The role of the intellectual -- pt. 1. Literature and civility : liberal solutions to political conflict. Matthew Arnold, culture and the intellectual. The Habermasian public sphere -- pt. 2. Contesting civil order with proletarian experience. The counter-public sphere. Thinkingsubjects -- pt. 3. Impossible subjects : proletariats, savages, and historical materialism. The savage and the proletariat. Proletariats and urban intellectuals -- pt. 4. Radical intellectuals and thepeople. Speaking for the people. Outsiders: women and radical theory