Intellectuals in politics : from the Dreyfus affair to the Rushdie affair / edited by Jeremy Jennings and Anthony Kemp-Welch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Machine generated contents note: 1. century of the intellectual: from the Dreyfus Affair to Salman Rushdie / Jeremy Jennings / Tony Kemp-Welch -- 2. intellectual as social critic: Antonio Gramsci and Michael Walzer / Richard Bellamy -- 3. Between autonomy and responsibility: Max Weber on scholars, academics and intellectuals / Alan Scott -- 4. Of treason, blindness and silence: dilemmas of the intellectual in modern France / Jeremy Jennings -- 5. Algeria and the dual image of the intellectual / Lahouari Addi -- 6. Between the word and the land: intellectuals and the State in Israel / Shlomo Sand -- 7. product of history, not a cause? Yeats, the 'Auden generation', and the politics of poetry, 1891-1939 / D. George Boyce -- 8. Revolutionaries and dissidents: the role of the Russian intellectual in the downfall of Tsarism and Communism / Edward Acton -- 9. Politics and the Polish intellectuals, 1945-89 / Tony Kemp-Welch -- 10. Intellectuals and socialism: making and breaking the proletariat / Neil Harding -- 11. Freedom, commitment and Marxism: the predicament of independent intellectuals in the United States, 1910-41 / Steven Biel -- 12. tragic predicament: post-war American intellectuals, acceptance and mass culture / George Cotkin -- 13. Are intellectuals a dying species? War and the Ivory Tower in the postmodern age / David Schalk -- 14. What truth? For whom and where? / Martin Hollis.

This wide-ranging investigation explores the influence of thinkers from diverse intellectual backgrounds on the development of twentieth century culture, and in so doing tells us much about the modern world in which we live.

English.

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