Los intelectuales en la sociedad democràtica
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- Author: Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, New School for Social Research, New York
- Date Published: June 2002
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- isbn: 9788483230893
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This book provides a sophisticated alternative to existing accounts of the role of the intellectual in modern democracy. Arguing that society suffers from a systemic deliberation deficit, Jeffrey Goldfarb explores the potential of the intellectual as democratic agent, at once civilizing political contestation and subverting complacent consensus. The sentimental Leftist view of the intellectual as guardian of democracy and the demonising Rightist view of the intellectual as obstructor of progress, are both shown to be flawed. Instead, intellectuals are portrayed as special kinds of 'strangers' who pay careful attention to their critical faculties, equipping them uniquely to address the most pressing issues of today. Professor Goldfarb deploys classical and contemporary social theory to analyse a diverse set of intellectuals in action, from Socrates in fifth-century Athens to Malcolm X and Toni Morrison in twentieth-century America, and, drawing on personal acquaintance, the political dissidents in Communist and post-Communist Central Europe.
Read more- Offers a theoretically sophisticated new account of role of intellectual in democratic society
- Includes case studies of Socrates in Athens, political dissidents in Central Europe, Malcolm X and Toni Morrison in America
- Draws on author's firsthand experience of political and cultural change in Communist and post-Communist Central Europe
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- Date Published: June 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9788483230893
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 139 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.313kg
- availability: This item is not supplied by Cambridge University Press in your region. Please contact Ediciones AKAL for availability.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Who are the intellectuals?
3. The civil intellectual and the public
4. The subversive intellectual and the public
5. The civil society ideal
6. The intellectuals and the politics of culture after Communism
7. The university
8. Race and discursive disruption
9. Race and sustained deliberation
10. Why is there no feminism after Communism?
11. Civility and subversion in cynical times.
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