The Intellectual: A Phenomenon in Multidimensional Perspectives
edited by Nikita Basov, Georg F. Simet, Jeroen van Andel, Sechaba Mahlomaholo & Vhonani Netshandama
ISBN: 978-1-84888-027-6
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Contents
Introduction
Georg F. Simet and Nikita Basov
PART I Intellectuals and Ideas
Trashing Truth in Eight Easy Steps: The Decline of Intellectual Commitment and the Importance of Militant Atheism
Jerrold L. Kachur
A Defence of Philosophy
Carlos David García Mancilla
Theoretical Discourse on the Challenges of Black Intellectuals in Post-modern America
Tunde Adeleke
Power and Powerlessness of Intellectuals in Turkey: The Debate on ‘Turkishness’ and the Murder of Hrant Dink
Georg F. Simet
Powerlessness, Lamentation and Nostalgia: Discourses of the Post-Soviet Intelligentsia in Modern Latvia
Olga Procevska
PART II The University, Knowledge and the Intellectual
From Distributed Knowledge Creation to Intelligent Knowledge-Creating Systems
Nikita Basov & Anna Shirokanova
Sustainable Empowering Learning Environments: Conversations with Gramsci’s Organic Intellectual
Sechaba Mahlomaholo & Vhonani Netshandama
The Return of the Democratic Intellect?
Jim Moir
From Academic to Customer: the Paradox of Post-Modern Higher Education
Jeroen van Andel
The Role of Community Engagement in Higher Education: Focus On the Discourse Relating To Knowledge Development
Vhonani Netshandama & Sechaba Mahlomaholo
PART III The Intellectual and the Cultural Turn
The Role of the Intellectual: Shakespeare’s Exploration of Contemplative Life vs. Active Life in ‘The Tempest’
Unhae Langis
Three Centuries before the Cultural Turn; or, the Critic on the Print Market in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Michelle Syba
The Last Epic Storyteller and his Fictional Rewriting in People’s Republic of China
Kenny K. K. NG
‘Imagining the Unimaginable’: The Importance of Storytelling for J.M. Coetzee’s Intellectual Practice
Claire Heaney
Intellectual in the Field of Contemporary Art
Oleksandra Nenko
Notes on Contributors
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