A call to arms. An essay on the role of the intellectual and the need for producing new imaginaries

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A call to arms. An essay on the role of the intellectual and the need for producing new imaginaries

Original language description

The essay takes a historical reflection on the identity of the intellectual as a starting point, highlighting four key debates that have tried to provide meaning to this identity. These debates concern the intellectual's class position, the intellectual's connection to other classes and social groups, the location of the intellectual and the relationship with the university, and the publicness of the intellectual. These debates then feed into a more engaged reflection on the desirability of intellectuals to intervene in a society characterised by three types of crisis - the crisis of representative democracy, the economic crisis and the crisis of mimesis - investigating how their rethorics can be transformed into counter-hegemonic discourses. Althoughit is argued that the production of new ideological projects is not straightforward - because of the complex relationship between agency and discursive structures, the evenly difficult relationship between complexity and simplicity, and t

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Javnost

ISSN

1318-3222

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

SI - SLOVENIA

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

77-92

UT code for WoS article

000344043500005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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