Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting 21st Century Philistinism - Brossura

Furedi, Frank

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ISBN 10: 0826488218 ISBN 13: 9780826488213

Casa editrice: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2005

Riassunto

The intellectual is an endangered species. In place of such people 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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0826488218
• ISBN 13: 9780826488213
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176