Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I - THEORY

1 - What Is an Intellectual?
2 - A Platonic Perspective on the Idea of the Public Intellectual
3 - The Idea of the Public Intellectual in the Age of the Enlightenment
4 - Rousseau’s Critique of the Public Intellectual in the Age of the Enlightenment
5 - The Founding Fathers and the Creation of Public Opinion
6 - The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual in American History
7 - The Decline of the Public Intellectual and the Rise of the Pundit
8 - The Public Intellectual and the Experience of Totalitarianism
9 - The Peripheral Insider: Raymond Aron and the Wages of Reason
10 - Gray Is Beautiful

II - PRACTICE

11 - The Professional Scholar as Public Intellectual: Reflections Prompted by Karl Mannheim, Robert K. Merton, and C. Wright Mills
12 - Public Philosophy and International Feminism
13 - Wit Irony Fun Games

Index
About the Contributors