Sentence examples for organic intellectual from inspiring English sources
noun
An intellectual member of a social class, as opposed to a member of the traditional intelligentsia that regards itself as a class apart from the rest of society.
I wasn't the organic intellectual of Marxist fantasies, a proletarian politicized in the factory, but few are.
Dr. Gaines, who wrote "Teenage Wasteland," a book about suburban alienation, says Mr. Stevenson is "the epitome of an organic intellectual.
Kaldor writes as an academic and an activist - as an "organic intellectual" of the peace movement, to use an older parlance - and this lends her arguments passion and commitment.
Because Mr. Awoonor was imprisoned for his activism during a time of repression in the mid-1970s, "we saw him more as an organic intellectual, as somebody who was not just confined to academia, somebody interested in the broader economic and social struggle," Mr. Aidoo said.
An organic intellectual in both the Arab world and the West, Dr Hellyer's academic career, where he continues to look at political philosophy, and the interaction between tradition and modernity, has included affiliations at the American University in Cairo, the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies of the University of Oxford.
But in the end he turned out to be more radical than any of the Greek left's "organic intellectuals".
The role of the organic intellectuals and their relations with social movements and the societies at large is particularly important.
No conservative organic intellectuals there!
The 1% of Americans sitting at the top of the income ladder certainly has its own organic intellectuals.
There is plenty of evidence - just not evidence that organic intellectuals of the Right choose to consider and concede.
The Turkish government and its "organic intellectuals" have been stoking the fire of polarization and exclusion for quite some time now.
