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A youthful critic in his twenties, Randolph Bourne wrote a bitter essay in the intellectual magazine Seven Arts, lambasting his fellow intellectuals for lining up so readily behind the war effort. To those of us who still retain an irreconcilable animus against war, it has been a bitter experience to see the unanimity with which the American ...
14 de jul. de 2020 · The immediate relevance of some of our thinkers to the Covid-19 era speaks for itself: vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert and science writer Ed Yong being prime examples. Just as interesting, however, are those who work in fields a mile away from medicine, but who have nonetheless acquired a new salience in the dark and peculiar circumstances of 2020.
5 de ago. de 2020 · Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect magazine selected their top 100, and invited readers to vote for their top five. Here was their selection criteria. The irony of this "thinkers" list is that it does not bear thinking about too closely. The problems of definition and judgment that it involves would discourage more rigorous souls.
Background. In a society, the intelligentsia is a status class of intellectuals whose social functions, politics, and national interests are (ostensibly) distinct from the functions of government, commerce, and the military. In Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (1921), the political economist Max Weber applied the term intelligentsia in chronological and geographical ...
Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals. Jacques Berlinerblau. Rutgers University Press, 1999 - Education - 288 pages. One of the most controversial books to come out of the academy in the last fifteen years is Martin Bernal's Black Athena.
13 de feb. de 2020 · This sentiment echoes Merle Curti’s presidential address to the American Historical Association, in which the historian worried about intellectuals’ uneven political involvement and the “tendency of many intellectuals to become mere technicians.” Curti, “Intellectuals and Other People,” p. 276.
1 de ene. de 2002 · Request PDF | On Jan 1, 2002, V. P. Franklin and others published Biography, Race Vindication, and African American Intellectuals | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
