“Public Intellectuals, Public Engagement?”
This month’s title focuses on the figure of the public intellectual, a character that encompasses the best and worst of the twentieth century. Patty McCabe discusses the French intellectual and their treatment as a category, Nick Thomas looks at the way technology has forced intellectuals to alter their parameters of engagement and Joe Strong looks at the public intellectual and revolution. Each of theses articles comes from a different angle but there is one idea that binds them together; the public intellectual needs to change and adapt to the twentieth-first century
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