Towards a theory of intellectuals and politics

Theory and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 205-233

  Karabel, Jerome ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000338128     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00161141     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala (New York: Vintage Books, 1991), 167.
2. For analyses of the birth of the modern "intellectual" during the Dreyfus case that shook France in the 1890s (and of Zola's prominent role in organizing "les intellectuels"), see Lewis A. Coser, Men of Ideas: A Sociologist's Views (New York: The Free Press, 1970), 215-225;
3. and Christophe Charle, Naissance des "intellectuels," 1880-1900 (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1990).
4. For key contributions to the debate about the problem of intellectuals, see Julien Benda, The Treason of the Intellectuals (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1969);
5. George Orwell, "Writers and Leviathan," in George B. de Huszar, editor, The Intellectuals: A Controversial Portrait (Glencoe, 111.: The Free Press, 1960);
6. Leszek Kolakowsk, Marxism and Beyond: On Historical Understanding and Individual Responsibility (London: Paladin, 1971),
7. and "Intellectuals against intellect," Daedalus (Winter 1972);
8. and Alan Montefiore; "The political responsibility of intellectuals," in Ian Maclean, Alan Montefiore, and Peter Winch, editors, The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
9. Ignazio Silone's remarks about the responsibility of the intellectual were contained in a speech delivered before the International PEN Club Conference at Basle, "On the place of intellect and the pretensions of the intellectual," in George B. de Huszar, editor, The Intellectuals: A Controversial Portrait (Glencoe, III.: The Free Press, 1960), 261-266.
10. Edward W. Said, Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures (New York: Pantheon Books, 1994), xvi, 85-102.