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Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
Confronting 21st Century Philistinism
Langbeschreibung
In this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy - and why we need to recreate a public sphere in which intellectuals and the general public can talk to each other again.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: The land of the philistines revisited Chapter 1: Devaluing the Intellect Chapter 2: Trivial Pursuits Chapter 3: Dumbing Down Chapter 4: Social Engineering Chapter 5: The Culture of Flattery Chapter 6: Treating People as Children Epilogue: A reply to the critics
Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of fourteen books including Why Education isn't Educating (2010), The Politics of Fear (2007), Where have all the Intellectuals Gone? (2005), Therapy Culture (2003) and Paranoid Parenting (2001). Furedi's books offer an authoritative yet lively account of key developments in contemporary cultural life, with a particular interest in precautionary culture and risk aversion in the West. He is the UK sociologist most widely cited by the UK media and his books have been translated into eleven languages. He appears frequently on television and radio in the English speaking world and beyond and he publishes regular articles with a range of newspapers.
ISBN-13:
9781441163486
Veröffentl:
2006
Seiten:
198
Autor:
Frank Furedi
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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