The Changing role of the public intellectual - Cummings, Dolan (London Routledge, 2005)
Introduction: ideas, intellectuals, and the public /Dolan Cummings -- Intellectuals and the myth of decline /Jeremy Jennings -- What genius once was: reflections on the public intellectual /Sabrine Reul -- Intellectuals for our times /Alan Hudson -- Contemporary 'vehicularity' and 'romanticism': debarting the status of ideals and intellectuals /Gregor McLennan and Thomas Osborne -- Relativists as 'folk devils' and popular sophistry /Robert Eaglestone -- Limitations of public dialogue in science and the rise of the new 'experts' /Bill Durodie -- Ethics and knowledge in the contemporary university /Catherine Scott -- Academics as intellectuals /Ronald Barnett. -- Intellectuals and education: the role of the university /Dennis Hayes -- What are universities for?: universities, knowledge, and intellectuals /James Panton --A public or dissenting intellectual /Sondra Farganis -- Afterword: the downsizing of the intellectual authority /Frank Furedi.
A special issue of the journal Critical Review and International Social and Political Philosophy.
Includes bibliographic references and index.
Keywords: Intellectual life; Intellectuals; Knowledge, Sociology of