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Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values

Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values

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General EducationGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0822324601
ISBN13: 9780822324607
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 24 2000
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Intellectuals occupy a paradoxical position in contemporary American culture as they struggle both to maintain their critical independence and to connect to the larger society. In Anxious Intellects John Michael discusses how critics from the right and the left have conceived of the intellectual's role in a pluralized society, weighing intellectual authority against public democracy, universal against particularistic standards, and criticism against the respect of popular movements. Michael asserts that these Enlightenment-born issues, although not resolvable, are the very grounds from which real intellectual work must proceed.

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