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 an introduction to the major issues confronting intellectuals, this book explores the various aspects of the intellectual's role including: ...
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...
After introducing the major issues confronting intellectuals, this book explores the various different aspects of the intellectual's role. It includes...
Between the Nazi occupation and the anti-communist revolution of 1956, Poland underwent twelve years of Stalinist rule. Using recently-opened archives, historians and social scientists from four countries give the first analysis of the rise and fall of this system. The book is organised in three parts: Construction (external and domestic), Conflicts (above all, communists against the Church and peasantry) and Collapse (during 1956). An Epilogue reviews the whole period in the light of contemporary political debates.
Between the Nazi occupation and the anti-communist revolution of 1956, Poland underwent twelve years of Stalinist rule. Using recently-opened archives...
This book describes the origins and birth of Solidarity in 1980, its rebirth in 1989, and the formation of a Solidarity government. This second edition is now enlarged to include fresh documentation of the 1980 strike, a further mmoire on the experts' role 'behind the scenes', and an entirely new chapter 'From Gdansk to Government'. Taken together, the analysis and documentation provide a permanent record of Eastern Europe's first breakthrough into post-communism.
This book describes the origins and birth of Solidarity in 1980, its rebirth in 1989, and the formation of a Solidarity government. This second editio...
