Overview
- Builds on Jacoby's The Last Intellectuals, a modern classic published in 1987
- Addresses multiculturalism, diversity, post-colonialism, utopian violence, civil wars, and state violence
- Includes analysis of Noam Chomsky, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Satre, Isaiah Berlin, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and Albert Camus
Part of the book series: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose (POPHPUPU)
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“Everything that Russell Jacoby writes is well worth reading. He’s smart, independent, lively, well-informed and alive with the joy of intellectual combat. Agree with him or not—he makes you think and think hard about any and every subject he takes up.” (Mark Edmundson, University Professor, University of Virginia, USA)
“For over fifty years, Russell Jacoby has been one of our most relentlessly contrarian critics. In lucid and punchy—ok, often snarky—prose, he has lamented the decline of genuine intellectuals, exposed the pretenses of academia, and challenged pieties on both the right and left, while all the time refusing to give up on utopian ideals. Gathering his scattershot efforts into one resounding blast of critical energy, Intellectuals in Politics and Academia is easy to argue with, but hard to put down”. (Martin Jay, Ehrman Professor of European History Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
“Russell Jacoby is one of America’s very finest essayists and this collection shows his masterly combination of style and substance. His illuminating investigations of leading thinkers and his biting critique of academic conceits are alone worth the price of the book. Its range is exceptional and, as always, Jacoby shows respect for the utopian imagination and those intellectuals who defend it. These essays are provocative and, just as important, a great read. Don’t miss this book!” (Stephen Eric Bronner, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and German Studies, Rutgers University, USA)
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Book Title: Intellectuals in Politics and Academia
Book Subtitle: Culture in the Age of Hype
Authors: Russell Jacoby
Series Title: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07646-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07645-9Published: 22 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07648-0Published: 22 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07646-6Published: 20 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2524-714X
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7158
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 183
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, History, general, Political Theory, Political Science, Social Sciences, general