Dramatic Intellectuals
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| Summary: | XI, 298 p. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2025.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2025. |
| Series: | Cultural Sociology,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-89909-6 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 01: Who Are the Dramatic Intellectuals and What Do They Do? A Cultural-Sociological Analysis
- Part I: The Rise and Fall of Intellectuals
- Chapter 02: Dramatic Intellectuals
- Chapter 03: The Filmmaker as Public Intellectual: Pedro Almodóvar and the Post-Franco Cultural Explosion in Spain
- Chapter 04: Stop the Performance! Cancel Culture in the Contemporary Academy
- Part II: Intellectuals as Plot Writers: Narrating the World’s Crisis
- Chapter 05: Satire, Conspiracy, Dystopia: Agustín Laje’s Genre Work for the Latin American Reaction
- Chapter 06: Noam Chomsky and the Doomsday Clock
- Chapter 07: Lord Bertrand Russell, Prophet of the Industrial Apocalypse
- Part III: Mapping the World into Binaries
- Chapter 08: Carl Jung and the Search for the Sacred in the Realm of the Unconscious
- Chapter 09: Arne Naess and Ingemar Hedenius as Dramatic Intellectuals: Toward a Common Platform for Sociology of Knowledge and History of Knowledge
- Part IV: Hitting the Stage: Intellectuals Talk to the Audiences
- Chapter 10: Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson as Celebrity-Icons
- Chapter 11: The Curious Reception of Giorgio Agamben’s Pandemic Writings
- Chapter 12: Conclusion: The Drama Surrounding Intellectuals.