Intellectuals and their Publics

How do intellectuals engage with and affect their publics?

This exciting collection responds to these questions by offering a broad-ranging account of the changing role of intellectuals in public life.

The role of the public intellectual in the new age of political uncertainties

The volume opens with provocative essays on the idea and role of the public intellectual from Alexander, Evans and Zulaika.

Challenges faced by female intellectuals and those speaking from an ethnic, national or class position

Chapters from Rabinbach on intellectuals'' responses to totalitarianism, Outhwaite on what it means to be a European intellectual, and Auer’s discussion of the dissident intellectual in the collapse of communism lead onto vigorous debate of earlier points discussed through specific intellectual case studies from Tocqueville to Hayek.

Intellectuals and their Publics

This volume will attract a broad readership interested in the role of the intellectual, with particular appeal for sociologists, political theorists and historians of ideas.