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Intellectuals in the 21st Century: Reconfiguring Ideologies and Global Struggles Against the Elitization of Knowledge

Intellectuals in the 21st Century: Reconfiguring Ideologies and Global Struggles Against the Elitization of Knowledge

Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

General SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1041193998
ISBN13: 9781041193999
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book sees international academics from across five continents come together to critique the role of the present-day intellectual.

Arguing that the elitization of the social sciences and humanities has reached a major climax in the 21st century, owing to the commercialisation of knowledge and the advent of the capitalist model, it asks how intellectuals can free themselves of the ideological labyrinth in which they now find themselves, and reshape the contributions of the social sciences and humanities as adequate tools for the needs of our time. The international academy has the aim and the responsibility to look at, criticise, and work against the dominant logic and to allow knowledge and international debates to reach the farthest corners of the globe. Intellectuals from different areas of the social sciences and humanities offer unique insights along this theme to offer critical analysis and reflection on our current situation, asking: what are now the duties and responsibility of intellectuals?

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