Intellectual | The Positive Power of Negative Thinking .

Fuller, Steve

ISBN 10: 1840466537 / ISBN 13: 9781840466539

Published by Icon Books Ltd, Cambridge, 2005

About this Item

- 205 mm. Cloth hardcover. Pp. vi, 184. Overall, VG / VG.

Seller Inventory # 003318

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Intellectual | The Positive Power of Negative Thinking .
• Publisher: Icon Books Ltd, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840466537
• ISBN 13: 9781840466539
• Binding: Publisher's Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Steve Fuller's book dissects what it means to be an intellectual. What distinguishes them from philosophers, scientists, politicians or entrepreneurs? Why are they happy to be insulted as long as they are not ignored? Why do they thrive on conflict? And why is Batman the intellectual's favourite superhero?
As well as a history of the intellectual from Ancient Greece to post-9/11, Steve Fuller also provides an essential guide to the species. Think you would recognise an intellectual when you saw one? Entertain hopes of intellectualism yourself? Meet exemplars from the past - Voltaire, Sartre, Norman Mailer or Bertrand Russell - alongside many living examples in this original road-map to the intellectual life.

About the Author

Steve Fuller is a trainee multi-media public intellectual. He has appeared on UK radio and has written for the New Scientist and The New York Times. By day Fuller is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.