Intellectuals and Their Publics : Perspectives from the Social Sciences (Hardcover)

Introduction; One: Provocations; 1: Public Intellectuals and Civil Society; 2: Can Women Be Intellectuals?; 3: Terrorism and the Betrayal of the Intellectuals; Two: Complications; 4: European Civil Society and the European Intellectual: What Is, and How Does One Become, a European Intellectual?; 5: What Influence? Public Intellectuals, the State and Civil Society; 6: Public Intellectuals, East and West: Jan Pato?ka and Vaclav Havel in Contention with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Slavoj ?i?ek; 7: Public Intellectuals and Totalitarianism: A Century's Debate; Three: Case Studies; 8: Tocqueville as a Public Intellectual 1; 9: Tocqueville's Dark Shadow: Gustave de Beaumont as Public Sociologist and Intellectual Avant la Lettre; 10: French Sociologists and the Public Space of the Press: Thoughts Based on a Case Study (Le Monde, 1995-2002); 11: You Only See What You Reckon You Know: Max and Marianne Weber in the United States of America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; 12: Towards a Sociology of Intellectual Styles of Thought: Differences and Similarities in the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno and Jurgen Habermas; 13: Women as Public Intellectuals: Kerstin Hesselgren and Alva Myrdal; 14: How Hayek Managed to Beat Lazarsfeld: The Different Perception of Two Sub-fields of Social Science 1; Three: Conclusion