Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? 2nd Edition: Including a Reply to Furedi's Critics: Confronting 21st Century Philistinism

Furedi, Frank

ISBN 10: 0826490964 / ISBN 13: 9780826490964

Published by Continuum, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? 2nd Edition: Including a Reply to Furedi's Critics: Confronting 21st Century Philistinism
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826490964
• ISBN 13: 9780826490964
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 230 grams

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Synopsis

In this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy - and why we need to recreate a public sphere in which intellectuals and the general public can talk to each other again.

About the Author

Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of fourteen books including Why Education isn't Educating (2010), The Politics of Fear (2007), Where have all the Intellectuals Gone? (2005), Therapy Culture (2003) and Paranoid Parenting (2001). Furedi's books offer an authoritative yet lively account of key developments in contemporary cultural life, with a particular interest in precautionary culture and risk aversion in the West. He is the UK sociologist most widely cited by the UK media and his books have been translated into eleven languages. He appears frequently on television and radio in the English speaking world and beyond and he publishes regular articles with a range of newspapers.