Description: Birth of the Intellectuals : 1, Paperback by Charle, Christophe, ISBN 074569036X, ISBN-13 9780745690360, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Who exactly are the 'intellectuals'? This term is so widely used today that we forget that it is a recent invention, dating from the late nineteenth century. In Birth of the Intellectuals, the renowned historian and sociologist Christophe Charle shows that the term 'intellectuals' first appeared at the time of the Dreyfus Affair, and the neologism originally signified a cultural and political vanguard who dared to challenge the status quo. Yet the word, expected to disappear once the political crisis had dissolved, has somehow endured. At times it describes a social group, and at others a way of seeing the social world from the perspective of universal values that challenges established hierarchies. But why did intellectuals survive when the events thatgave rise to this term had faded into the past? To answer this question, it is necessary to show how the crisis of the old representations, the unprecedented expansion of the intellectual professions and the vacuum left by the decline of the traditional ruling class created favourable conditions for the collective affirmation of 'intellectuals.' This also explains why the literary or academic avant garde traditionally reluctant to engage gradually reconciled themselves with political activists and developed new ways to intervene in the field of power outside of traditional political channels. Through a careful rereading of the petitions surrounding the Dreyfus Affair, Charle offers a radical reinterpretation of this crucial moment of European history anddevelops a new model for understanding the ways in which public intellectuals in France, Germany, Britain, and the United States have addressed politics ever since"--From publisher's website.
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Book Title: Birth of the Intellectuals : 1880-1900
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Birth of the Intellectuals : 1880-1900
Publisher: Polity Press
Subject: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Europe / France, Social History, General, Europe / General
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Christophe Charle
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
