An Intellectual in Public [1 ed.] 9780472024278, 9780472068654

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An Intellectual in Public [1 ed.]
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Broad in scope and stylistically diverse, these essays offer a fascinating overview of the links between thought, public

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This illuminating, entertaining, and timely volume examines the place and impact of public intellectuals in our rapidly

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When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a se

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In this book, Katherine Fierlbeck looks at the legacy of ideas taken from (or shaped in reaction to) the nations that ha

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The public sphere provides a domain of social life in which public opinion is expressed by means of rational discourse a

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Bruno Latour is one of the major figures of contemporary thought. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Lat

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In this intellectual biography, the economic historian Michele Alacevich explores the development and trajectory of Albe

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Is the Grand Old Man re-emerging? More than twenty years after the collapse of Communism, and in the midst of the crisis

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Examines the life of Elie Halevy who was a historian in the grand tradition of Thucydides, the philosophe manque.

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"Fredrik Barth is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century anthropology. In a career spanning six decades,

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