After an introduction to the major issues confronting intellectuals, this book explores the various aspects of the intellectual's role including:
* philosophers and academics who have tried to define the function of the intellectual
* how intellectuals have assumed the status of the conscience of the nation and the voice of the oppressed
* the interaction of intellectuals with Marxism
* the place of the intellectual in American society
Covering regions as diverse as Israel, Algeria, Britain, Ireland, central Europe and America, this collection considers the question of whether...

After introducing the major issues confronting intellectuals, this book explores the various different aspects of the intellectual's role. It includes: the place of the intellectual in American society; the interaction of intellectuals with Marxism; and philisophers and academics who have tried to define the function of intellectual. Covering countries as diverse as Israel, Algeria, Britain, Ireland, Eastern Europe and America, this collection considers the question of whether the intellectual can still lay claim to the language of truth. In answering, the study aims to tell much about the...

This book aims to contribute to current debates on republicanism by examining the relationship between republican theory and practice in a variety of contexts.
The claim that civic republicanism can better address contemporary political problems than either liberalism or communitarianism has recently achieved considerable prominence, and been much debated.
This volume aims to confront normative theory with historical and comparative analysis in order to explore the claim that republican theory can address contemporary political problems in ways that are both valuable and significantly...

A Treatise on political economy appears as the fourth part of the Elemens d'ideologie, entitled Traite de la volonte et de ses effets.

This book examines the role and place of the intellectual in twentieth-century French society. The essays are for the most part written by eminent French scholars and make available to the English-speaking reader a growing body of research which explores the ethical and historical issues raised by the prominence of the intellectual in politics since the Dreyfus Affair. The volume concludes with an examination of the contrasting and complementary roles of the French and British intellectual.