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1 online resource (180 p.) |
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Intro -- The Intellectual: A Phenomenon in Multidimensional Perspectives -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Intellectuals and Ideas -- Trashing Truth in Eight Easy Steps: The Decline of Intellectual Commitment and the Importance of Militant Atheism -- A Defence of Philosophy -- Theoretical Discourse on the Challenges of Black Intellectuals in Post-Modern America -- Power and Powerlessness of Intellectuals in Turkey: The Debate on 'Turkishness' and the Murder of Hrant Dink -- Powerlessness, Lamentation and Nostalgia: Discourses of the Post-Soviet Intelligentsia in Modern Latvia |
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PART II: The University, Knowledge and the Intellectual -- From Distributed Knowledge Creation to Intelligent Knowledge-Creating Systems -- Sustainable Empowering Learning Environments: Conversations with Gramsci's Organic Intellectual -- The Return of the Democratic Intellect? -- From Academic to Customer: The Paradox of Post-Modern Higher Education -- The Role of Community Engagement in Higher Education: Focus On the Discourse Relating to Knowledge Development -- PART III: The Intellectual and the Cultural Turn |
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The Role of the Intellectual: Shakespeare's Exploration of Contemplative Life vs. Active Life in The Tempest -- Three Centuries before the Cultural Turn: The Critic on the Print Market in Early Eighteenth-Century England -- The Last Epic Storyteller and his Fictional Rewriting in People's Republic of China -- 'Imagining the Unimaginable': The Importance of Storytelling for J.M. Coetzee's Intellectual Practice -- Intellectual in the Field of Contemporary Art -- Notes on Contributors |
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Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Intellectuals.
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Intellectuals.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Simet, Georg
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van Andel, Joroen
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Mahlomaholo, Sechaba
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Netshandama, Vhonani
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| ISBN |
9781848880276 |
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1848880278 |
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