Intellectuals

“Terrorology”: Who analyses and comments on the terrorist threat?

by Thomas Riegler

This contribution focuses on the role of intellectuals in structuring  the discussion of terrorism  – by... more This contribution focuses on the role of intellectuals in structuring  the discussion of terrorism  – by focusing  solely  on the Anglo-American discourse. Terrorism experts, who are embedded in certain think tanks, play an important role in shaping the public’s perception of political violence as commentators, columnists, and “independent” analysts. What is not critically reflected in the media is the fact that many of these experts and institutions are closely linked to the security industry and the intelligence apparatus. Thus their analysis is often predominantly politically and ideologically biased. This point is substantiated by a  comparison of the legitimisation of  the Reagan administration’s counterterrorism strategy in the 1980s and George W. Bush’s “War on Terror”. Finally, as example  for  the  European discourse, several British terrorism experts and their relationship with the “intelligencesecurity-complex” are examined.

Intellectuals and society: sociological and historical perspectives.

by Patrick Baert

By Patrick Baert and Joel Issac.

In: Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory. Eds. G.Delanty and S.P. Turner. London: Routledge, pp. 200-211.

This chapter critically assesses the various sociological and historical contributions to the study of... more This chapter critically assesses the various sociological and historical contributions to the study of intellectuals.It also explores the affinities betwen the sociological and historical studies in this area.

Transforming the intellectual

by Patrick Baert

Co-authored with Alan Shipman. Published in: Politics of Knowledge, edited by Fernando Dominguez Rubio and Patrick Baert. London: Routledge, pp. 179-204.

Patrick Baert and Alan Shipman’s chapter discusses the phenomenon of public intellectuals and argues against the view... more Patrick Baert and Alan Shipman’s chapter discusses the phenomenon of public intellectuals and argues against the view that their status and number are in decline. Against this ‘declinist’ thesis, Baert and Shipman assert that new types of public engagement have emerged which also result in novel forms of political engagement. Commentators who advocate the declinist thesis tend to take too restrictive a notion of what it is to be an intellectual, and fail to recognise the new forms of, and new participants in, the intellectual sphere. The prototypical cases were authoritative intellectuals: generalists with a considerable amount of cultural capital and a certain aura, often taking a moral stance. Authoritative intellectuals have gradually been replaced by professional intellectuals, and then by what are termed embedded intellectuals. In contrast with authoritative intellectuals, professional intellectuals are steeped in a particular discipline and derive their authority from that expertise. However, like authoritative intellectuals, professional intellectuals speak from above, whereas embedded intellectuals have a more democratic relationship with their audience, often developing a dialogue with a wider public and relying on it to boost their credibility and survival.

Национальное знание и международное признание: постсоветская академия в борьбе за cимволические рынки

by Elena Gapova/Елена Гапова/Алена Гапава

Ab Imperio: Исследования по новой имперской истории и национализму в постсоветском пространстве. 2011, № 4

Teoria nostratyczna i szkoła moskiewska

by Marek Stachowski

(= The Nostratic Theory and the Moscow School).

The Nostratic Theory, the main directions of its evolution and the Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics are critically presented in this study under the following headings: 1. Preliminaries; 2. Beginnings and Holger Pedersen; 3. Three binary hypotheses; 4. The Moscow School; 5. Reception in Europe; 6. Conclusion. -- The aim of the present author is not only to show the main lines of the evolution of Nostratics but also to formulate what he personally views as its most characteristic features – now and in the past – and to suggest what questions inevitably have to be answered if some kind of future cooperation of Moscow Nostraticists with non-Nostratic diachronic comparativists is to come into being and take root.

Not a Sin, but a Side Effect: Collaboration and Knowledge Creation by the Organic Intellectuals

by Olga Procevska

In: Understanding Knowledge Creation.
Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts.
Basov, Nikita and Oleksandra Nenko (Eds.)
Rodopi Press
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2012, XIX, 208 pp.
Pb: 978-90-420-3462-4

Collaboration between intellectuals and power is usually discussed in contexts of authoritarian and totalitarian... more Collaboration between intellectuals and power is usually discussed in contexts of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. In most cases it is defined in diplomatic (a technique for survival) or moralistic terms (a sin). I propose a slightly different look at the problem of collaboration that reaches beyond both contexts of repressive regimes and the interpretational dichotomy of diplomacy or morality. I believe that collaboration of intellectuals should be regarded specifically because they are engaged in an essentially ideological (power-related) work - creating and disseminating knowledge. My aim in this paper is to investigate a broader set of factors surrounding the notion of collaboration, attachment, engagement and detachment, and autonomy. By considering the generally and currently important conditions of intellectual work, a new type of organic intellectual can be distinguished: one that finds itself and, to employ Mannheim’s terminology, floats freely between the identity of a politically affiliated player in the life of the community and of a detached thinker and critic of the latter the same time.

In carne veritas? Le biologisme comme phénomène éditorial en France, 1970-2000

by Sebastien Lemerle

Thesis in sociology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, sustained in 2007
3 vol. (648-[123] f.)

In carne veritas ? Biologism as a publishing phenomenon in France, 1970-2000

Numerous social theories... more In carne veritas ? Biologism as a publishing phenomenon in France, 1970-2000

Numerous social theories inspired by biological sciences have been developing in France for decades. If one takes a look at the publishing field, where this development is particu-larly obvious, it occurs that such a phenomenon is more the result of the action of cultural go-betweens desirous of diffusing new conceptions of knowledge and modifying intellec-tual hierarchies, than a true revolution among the social sciences. The growth of biologism relies on the prestige accumulated by biology since World War II, as well as on the emer-gence of a new kind of intellectual, the « scientist ». It also rests on the contribution of biologism to the criticisms levelled at 1960’s critical theories, as well as to the discussions concerning the « return of the subject » in the 1980’s. It is taking shape with the promo-tion of a biopsychological social engineering that does not take much attention to envi-ronmental factors (social, geographical, etc.).

The Pseudohegemony of Inertia and Undevelopment

by Vasilis Avdikos

published in Regional Insights, 2010

La Trahison Des Archeologues] Archaeological Practice As Intellectual Activity In Postmodernlrv'

by Yannis Hamilakis

More's Utopia and Erasmus' No‐place

by Hanan Yoran

Practical Reflexivity, Dilemmas, and Coping Strategies

by Christian Bueger

« Egyptian Leftist Intellectuals’ Activism from the Margins: Overcoming the Mobilization/Demobilization Dichotomy », in Joel Beinin and Frédéric Vairel (eds.), Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa, Stanford University Press 2011

by Marie Duboc

Gramsci and the Intellectuals: Modern Prince Vs Passive Revolution

by Peter D. Thomas

Peter Thomas, “Gramsci and the Intellectuals: Modern Prince Vs Passive Revolution”, Marxism and Intellectuals, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007

From Scholar to Official

by Emilie Frenkiel

Wang Shaoguang 王绍光： recherche et engagement politique en Chine

by Emilie Frenkiel

Wozu brauchte der Intellektuelle das Proletariat? Literarisierung der Arbeit und Identitätsbildung des Intellektuellen bei Bertolt Brecht

by Franz-Josef Deiters

published in: Arbeit – Kultur – Identität. Zur Transformation von Arbeitslandschaften in der Literatur, ed. by Dagmar Kift and Hanneliese Palm, Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2007, pp. 55-68.

"Paradoxy profesionalizace protikorupčních aktivistů v České republice" (Paradoxes of Professionalization among Anti-Corruption Activists in the Czech Republic)

by Raymond June

Czech Sociological Review/Sociologický časopis, vol. 43, no. 1 (2007): 111-132.

Fragments on machinic intellectuals

by Jack Bratich

In Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigation, Collective Theorization
Editors: Stevphen Shukaitis and David Graeber
(AK Press, 2007, pp. 137-154)

[Raymond Aron and His Critique of the “French Intellectual”] Ideologierausch und Realitätsblindheit. Raymond Arons Kritik am Intellektuellen “französischen Typs”

by Riccardo Bavaj

Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 5 (2008), No. 2, 332-338

“Νεοφιλελευθερισμός και Κριτική Παιδαγωγική: Ο Ρόλος των Διανοούμενων» [Neoliberal Societies and Critical Pedagogy: The Role of Intellectuals].

by Panayota Gounari

In Utopia: A Review of Theory and Culture, Vol. 78, January-February 2008, Athens, Greece, pp. 61-75.