Intellectuals and the public good: creativity and civil courage
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Cambridge [u.a.]
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2007
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 277 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780521847186 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of tables page
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
The aim of the book
1
The outline of the book
7
Part I Theoretical framework
11
1
The authority of public intellectuals
13
The definition of the intellectual
13
The role of public intellectuals
21
Sources of authority
28
2
Creativity: the problem of the new
38
What is creativity?
38
Where is creativity?
49
What is the nature of creative action?
52
What are the forms of creativity?
54
3
Courage: acting on conviction
65
The changing nature and status of courage
65
Courage: risk and difficulty
73
Allegiance to the group and nonconformity
78
Civil courage as value-rational social action
83
4
Typology of engagements
88
Intellectual marginality and creativity
88
Intellectual engagement and courage
95
Recurrent patterns of activity
101
Part II Public intellectuals: the case of the Nobel
Peace Prize laureates
107
5
Intellectuals for peace
109
The Nobel Prize: its history and significance
109
vii
viii Contents
The Nobel Peace Prize: its aims and winners
113
Public intellectuals as the Nobel Peace Prize laureates
118
Notes
123
6
Heroes: legends in their own time
125
Realistic idealists
125
Jane Addams: searching for democracy s middle ground
127
Fridtjof Nansen:
expanding responsibility from the
national to the international level
134
Elie
Wiesel:
fighting against indifference
140
The wholeness of life and work
147
Notes
150
7
Dissidents: peaceful rebels
153
Intellectuals becoming political
153
Carl von Ossietzky:
a symbol for the other Germany
155
Andrei Sakharov: from Hero of Socialist Labour to state
enemy no.
1 164
Adolfo
Pérez
Esquivei:
a fighter for liberation
171
Challengers to political closure
177
Notes
179
8
Champions: promoting the cause
181
Influencing public opinion and campaigning for reforms
181
Norman
Angeli:
dispelling illusions about
international politics
182
Emily Greene Balch: awakening women s interest in
peace and internationalism
191
Alva Myrdal:
endorsing women s rights and peace
198
Trusting the positive power of reason and communication
206
Notes
208
9
Pioneers: bringing science to politics
210
Visionary ways of shaping uncharted territories
210
John Boyd
Orr:
freeing mankind from want
211
Linus Carl Pauling: opposed to making science a
handmaiden of war
218
Norman Borlaug: the father of the green revolution
225
Scientists addressing the problems that affect humanity
232
Notes
236
Conclusion
238
The via
contemplativa
and the via
activa
238
References
242
Index
262
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Contents
List of tables page
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
The aim of the book
1
The outline of the book
7
Part I Theoretical framework
11
1
The authority of public intellectuals
13
The definition of the intellectual
13
The role of public intellectuals
21
Sources of authority
28
2
Creativity: the problem of the new
38
What is creativity?
38
Where is creativity?
49
What is the nature of creative action?
52
What are the forms of creativity?
54
3
Courage: acting on conviction
65
The changing nature and status of courage
65
Courage: risk and difficulty
73
Allegiance to the group and nonconformity
78
Civil courage as value-rational social action
83
4
Typology of engagements
88
Intellectual marginality and creativity
88
Intellectual engagement and courage
95
Recurrent patterns of activity
101
Part II Public intellectuals: the case of the Nobel
Peace Prize laureates
107
5
Intellectuals for peace
109
The Nobel Prize: its history and significance
109
vii
viii Contents
The Nobel Peace Prize: its aims and winners
113
Public intellectuals as the Nobel Peace Prize laureates
118
Notes
123
6
Heroes: legends in their own time
125
Realistic idealists
125
Jane Addams: searching for democracy's middle ground
127
Fridtjof Nansen:
expanding responsibility from the
national to the international level
134
Elie
Wiesel:
fighting against indifference
140
The wholeness of life and work
147
Notes
150
7
Dissidents: peaceful rebels
153
Intellectuals becoming political
153
Carl von Ossietzky:
a symbol for the 'other Germany'
155
Andrei Sakharov: from Hero of Socialist Labour to state
enemy no.
1 164
Adolfo
Pérez
Esquivei:
a fighter for liberation
171
Challengers to political closure
177
Notes
179
8
Champions: promoting the cause
181
Influencing public opinion and campaigning for reforms
181
Norman
Angeli:
dispelling illusions about
international politics
182
Emily Greene Balch: awakening women's interest in
peace and internationalism
191
Alva Myrdal:
endorsing women's rights and peace
198
Trusting the positive power of reason and communication
206
Notes
208
9
Pioneers: bringing science to politics
210
Visionary ways of shaping uncharted territories
210
John Boyd
Orr:
freeing mankind from want
211
Linus Carl Pauling: opposed to making science a
'handmaiden of war'
218
Norman Borlaug: the father of the 'green revolution'
225
Scientists addressing the problems that affect humanity
232
Notes
236
Conclusion
238
The via
contemplativa
and the via
activa
238
References
242
Index
262 |
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