Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Intellectuals and their Publics: Perspectives from the Social Sciences; Part One Provocations; 1 Public Intellectuals and Civil Society; 2 Can Women Be Intellectuals?; 3 Terrorism and the Betrayal of the Intellectuals; Part Two Complications; 4 European Civil Society and the European Intellectual: What Is, and How Does One Become, a European; 5 What Influence? Public Intellectuals, the State and Civil Society
Summary
The ever changing role of an intellectual in this new age of political uncertainty is innovatively focused on within this exciting collection of essays. Its provocative studies and multifaceted responses promote a vigorous debate of individual case studies and will be of particular interest for sociologists, political theorists and historians of ideas
