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Who said you had to be a poncey French intellectual to be an existentialist?
Yet Davis isn't the only black American intellectual to be less than sanguine.
I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward.
That gives us some measure of the man: an Ulster intellectual to be sure, but one who was happily engaged with the world beyond the window.
After all, in China it is risky for an artist or intellectual to be too explicitly political, as Ai Weiwei and Liu Xiaobo bitterly learned.
The equivalent would have been for a prominent American intellectual to be pro-Soviet in the cold war, or today to have kind words for Islamic Jihad.If Socrates had subversive tendencies, he never acted on them overtly.
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It was a simple ruse to ferret out intellectuals to be executed.
And we need our public intellectuals to be more self-regarding.
For there is also Marxist Terry, who sees the duty of intellectuals to be revealing the depredations of capitalism.
"What I think he found interesting," he added, "was how difficult it was for intellectuals to be disciplined members of ideological movements.
It was tough for labor-liberal intellectuals to be "anti-communist" in the 1970s.
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