{"product_id":"changing-role-of-the-public-intellectual-1","title":"Changing Role of the Public Intellectual","description":"\u003cp\u003eIdeas can define and transform society, but how healthy is intellectual life today? In a period when Big Brother refers not to George Orwell but to a reality TV show, and when bright young things are developing gameshow formats rather than scribbling essays; when thinkers join think tanks to design short-term government policy rather than reflecting on and challenging the status quo, and when the ever growing number of graduates seem more interested in job prospects than academic endeavour, is intellectual life in terminal decline? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book looks at the idea of the public intellectual, considering whether such thinkers are becoming an endangered species. It also looks at the legacy of relativism and ethical doubts about the pursuit of knowledge, and the effect of such developments on intellectual life. The final section considers the expansion of higher education and the changing role of the academic. Taken together, the essays in this collection form a comprehensive overview of the intellectual climate today, and the possibilities for the future. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal \u003cem\u003eCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP)\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54236636053848,"sku":"9780415347822","price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415347822.jpg?v=1770170429","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/changing-role-of-the-public-intellectual-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}