Reports of my death are premature : a biography of the public intellectual

Reports of my death are premature : a biography of the public intellectual

This thesis examines the function, role and nature of the public intellectual in contemporary society to establish the ethical grounds upon which they can justify political intervention. It begins by arguing that the public intellectual, contrary to reports during the 1980s, is not dead: its transfo...

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Main Author: Fordham, Helen A.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2011
Subjects:
contemporary society
universal “truths”
public intellectual
Immanuel Kant’s “legislator” to Zygmunt Bauman’s “interpreter”
public domain
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1881

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