Our audience is composed of some of the brightest thinkers, scholars, researchers, politicians, and students in the world.
The book is a collection of essays by some of the world's most influential leadership thinkers, scholars and practitioners, including Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ronald Heifetz, Max Bazerman and Alexander Haslam.
But he's also a strategic thinker and scholar who ordered his officers to read military history, can quote Marcus Aurelius or Ulysses S. Grant — and never much liked the "mad dog" sobriquet his men bestowed on him in Anbar province.
Frederick the Wise had founded a new university in Wittenberg in 1502, which attracted some of the leading thinkers and scholars of the age.
Thinkers and scholars who should have a presence in the intellectual and cultural landscape — whose books, for example, might well be noted in the annual "holiday" listings — are instead known almost entirely in their own religious circles or academic specialties.
Its website explains: "We have published many of [the] greatest thinkers and scholars of the last 100 years, including Adorno, Einstein, Russell, Popper, Wittgenstein, Jung, Bohm, Hayek, McLuhan, Marcuse and Sartre".
In the very next sentence, he reels in a mysterious author from late antiquity named Hermes Trismegistus, who was highly esteemed by both Christian and Muslim thinkers (though scholars today doubt his very existence).
One can think of a dozen or so individuals like Martin Marty or Peter Berger or Jean Bethke Elshtain, Christian thinkers and scholars whose reviews and essays are as likely to appear in general readership journals as in publications that largely cater to particular religious communities.
Are there Muslim thinkers and scholars immersed in their faith, sensitive to the frustrations and resentments of the Muslim world, and yet appreciative of Western liberties not as an affront but as a stimulus to re-examine the riches of Islam and determine what can and cannot be affirmed with full religious integrity?
I look out at this class and I realize for four years at Michigan you have been exposed to diverse thinkers and scholars, professors and students.
It comes from our ideators and innovators, our leaders and thinkers, our scholars and scientists.
