The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals by Ian Maclean

The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals by Ian Maclean

The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals addresses the many problems in defining the relationship of intellectuals to the society in which they live. In what respects are they responsible for, and to, that society? Should they seek to act as independent arbiters of the values explicitly or implicity espoused by those around them? Should they seek to advise those in public life about the way in which they should act, or should they withdraw from any form of political involvement? And how should their preoccupations with truth and language find practical expression? The contributors to this volume seek to provide tentative answers to these questions. They come from a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from economics to linguistics and sociology to philosophy, and are drawn from both America and Eastern and Western Europe. The volume is given a particular interest by recent political upheavals in Eastern Europe, where many intellectuals have been confronted with sharply practical, sometimes dramatic, choices about their role in the political arena.

Alan Montefiore, formerly a fellow and tutor in philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, is president of the Forum for European Philosophy at the London School of Economics. He has researched and published on a wide variety of topics, including moral and political philosophy, contemporary French philosophy, philosophy of education, and issues of identity and responsibility. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Philosophy in France Today, The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals, Modern Introduction to Moral Philosophy, British Analytical Philosophy, and Philosophy and Personal Relations: An Anglo-French Study.

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ISBN 13	9780521398596
ISBN 10	0521398592
Title	The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals
Author	Ian Maclean
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1990-12-13
Number of pages	332
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