Public Intellectual

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  • ISBN 9780742508156
  • Weight: 367g
  • Dimensions: 159 x 226mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Mar 2003
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Whether intellectuals are counter-cultural escapists corrupting the young or secular prophets leading us to prosperity, they are a fixture of modern political life. In The Public Intellectual: Between Philosophy and Politics, Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman bring together a wide variety of noted scholars to discuss the characteristics, nature, and role of public thinkers. By looking at scholarly life in the West, this work explores the relationship between thought and action, ideas and events, reason and history.
Arthur M. Melzer is professor of political science at Michigan State University. He is the author of The Natural Goodness of Man: On the System of Rousseau's Thought (1990). He is also co-director of the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy and an editor of its first five volumes of essays, the most recent of which is Politics at the Turn of the Century (2001). Jerry Weinberger is professor of political science at Michigan State University. His books include Science, Faith, and Politics: Francis Bacon and the Utopian Roots of the Modern Age (1985) and new editions of Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh (1996) and The Advancement of Learning (2001). He is the director of the LeFrak Forum, co-director of the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy, and an editor of the Symposium's first five volumes of essays. M. Richard Zinman is University Distinguished Professor of Political Theory in James Madison College at Michigan State University. He is executive director of the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy and an editor of its first five volumes of essays.