Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting Twenty-First Century Philistinism

Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting Twenty-First Century Philistinism by Frank Furedi
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Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting Twenty-First Century Philistinism is a book by the Hungarian sociologist Frank Furedi, published by Continuum International Publishing Group in 2004 (ISBN 0826467695).

Contents

1 Contents

Devaluing the intellect
1. From a powerful protagonist to a lost soul
2. What makes the intellectual?
3. Contemporary society and the intellectual
4. The devaluation of the role of the intellectual
5. The conformist intellectual
Trivial pursuits
1. Disenchantment with the Enlightenment tradition
2. A sense of powerlessness in the face of uncertainty
3. Relativism: the contestation of knowledge claims
4. Instrumentalist compromise
Dumbing down
1. A disengaged public
2. Reengagement through the lowest common denominator
3. An elitist populism
Social engineering
1. The attack on autonomy
2. Social engineering and the market
The culture of flattery
1. Inclusion through affirmation
2. The institutionalisation of recognition
3. The celebration of ordinariness
Treating people as children
1. Infantilised culture
2. Infantilising people
3. Inverted snobbery
4. The construction of a docile public
5. Final thoughts

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