Reflections on Crisis
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Reflections on Crisis

The role of the public intellectual

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Reflections on Crisis

The role of the public intellectual

About this book

This pocket-sized book brings together academic essays originally delivered at a Royal Irish Academy symposium held in 2008. This was the year the global financial crisis hit. This book reflects a bewilderment at the heart of Irish society as the public looked to journalists and academics for explanations and solutions to what went wrong. Broken into five essays by economists, social scientists and historians, the short volume teases out questions such as: can we think our way out of a crisis? At a time of economic collapse, do intellectuals have something to offer? Are the views of economists, novelists, playwrights, sociologists, historians, political scientists and civil servants dismissed and ignored? Is Irish society anti-intellectual? The emergence of the figure of the public intellectual in American society is considered in some detail, as the book makes a case for shared critical thinking, imagination and ideas as a basis for recovery.

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Information

Publisher
Royal Irish Academy
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781908997791
Edition
0
Topic
Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Note on the Academy Committee for Social Sciences
  7. Introduction: Challenging Intellectuals
  8. Within and Beyond These Walls: University Academics as Public Intellectuals
  9. The Assault on Intellectualism in Irish Higher Education
  10. Public Intellectuals in Times of Crisis: The Role of Academia
  11. Reflections on the Public Intellectual’s Role in a Gendered Society
  12. Public Intellectuals and the ‘Crisis’: Accountability, Democracy and Market Fundamentalism
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. About the contributors