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Title Academics as public intellectuals / edited by Sven Eliaeson and Ragnvald Kalleberg
Published Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008

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Description vi, 327 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Academics as Public Intellectuals -- Sven Eliaeson & Ragnvald Kalleberg I -- Sociologists as Public Intellectuals During Three Centuries -- in the Norwegian Project of Enlightenment -- R agnvald K alleberg 17 -- Civil and National Duty: Christian Thomasius's Ethics of Decorum -- and Max Weber's Ethics of Conviction and Responsibility -- L iam S tone 4 9 -- Thus Spoke the Scientist: Franz Boas' Critique of the Role -- of the United States in World War I -- B ernd W eiler 65 -- Norwegian Academics and their Contribution to International -- Reconciliation and Peace: The Institute for Comparative Research -- in Human Culture -- L inda H olm s 87 -- Conceptualising a Public Intellectual: The Case of Otto Bauer -- M arcus Schw eiger 111 -- Gunnar Myrdal's Failure as Sweden's "Grumpy Old Man": Rereading -- Hur stvrs landet? Del 1. (How is the country ruled? Part 1). -- Sven Eliaeson 131 -- Notes from the Private Life of a Public Intellectual: Alva Myrdal -- in the Service of the United Nations, 1949-1955 -- Hedvig Ekerwald & Orjan Rodhe 153 -- Reforming the Science-Policy Boundary: The Myrdals and the Swedish -- Tradition of Governmental Commissions -- Per W isselgren 173 -- Recontextualisation of a Public Intellectual: The Case of Gunnar Myrdal -- and the Polish Public -- Joanna Bielecka-Prus & Aleksandra Walentynowicz 196 -- The Fate of the Intelligentsia and the Prospects for Civil Society -- and Democracy in East and Central Europe -- Ken Roberts 226 -- Portrait of an Intellectual From 20th Century Turkey: Emre Kongar -- Nilgun Celebi 243 -- Scientific Enlightenment and Social Activism in India -- Govindan Parayil 258 -- Medieval Intellectuals: Some Observations on the Rise of Western -- Intellectual Tradition in the Late 13th Century -- Christopher Schlembach 281 -- Social Science for Public Knowledge -- Craig Calhoun 299 -- Contributors 319
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject College teachers.
Intellectual capital.
Intellectuals.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Scholars.
Universities and colleges -- Faculty.
Author Eliæson, Sven, 1948-
Kalleberg, Ragnvald.
LC no. 2009437595
ISBN 1847184766 (hbk.)
9781847184764 (hbk.)