The new public intellectual

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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2016

202 Pages

ISBN 978-1-349-88763-7

The new public intellectual

politics, theory, and the public sphere

Edited by

Peter Hitchcock

What are the theoretical parameters that produce the category public intellectual? By pondering the conceptual elements that inform the term, this book offers not just a political critique, but a sense of the new challenges its meanings present. This collection complicates the notion of public intellectual while arguing for its continued urgency in communities formal and informal, institutional and abstract. While it is not quite accurate to say public intellectuals have disappeared entirely, it is clear they function differently inan age of global neoliberalism and techno-digital overdrive. Today the idea of the public intellectual bears only the slightest resemblance to what it was fifty or even twenty-five years ago. The essays in this collection provide a number of different ways to imagine the fate of public intellectuals and offers a thorough exploration of the commonplace ideologies and politics associated with them.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-58162-4

Full citation:

Hitchcock, P. (ed) (2016). The new public intellectual: politics, theory, and the public sphere, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Writing the public good back into education

Giroux Henry A.

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