scholarly journals The philosopher as engaged citizen: Habermas on the role of the public intellectual in the modern democratic public sphere

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843102110031
Author(s):  
Peter J. Verovšek
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Direct Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship

Realists and supporters of ‘democratic underlabouring’ have recently challenged the traditional separation between political theory and practice. Although both attack Jürgen Habermas for being an idealist whose philosophy is too removed from politics, I argue that this interpretation is inaccurate. While Habermas’s social and political theory is indeed oriented to truth and understanding, he has sought realize his communicative conception of democracy by increasing the quality of political debate as a public intellectual. Building on his approach, I argue that giving the theorist a direct role in public policy undermines theory as an enterprise oriented towards truth while overlooking the contingency, participatory nature and complicated internal logics of social and political practice. My basic thesis is that Habermas’s understanding of the relationship between theory and practice overcomes these difficulties by providing an account of theory that is independent but simultaneously also allows philosophers to participate in politics as public intellectuals.

Ambiguities and Clichés in the Debate about Public Intellectuals

2007 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Misztal
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
New Left ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper's purpose is to exam Turner's (2006a) thesis that Britain neither produced its own public intellectuals nor a distinctive sociology. It aims to outline difficulties with the logic of Turner's argument rather than to discuss any particular public intellectual in Britain. The paper argues that Turner's claim about the comparative insignificance of public intellectuals in Britain reinforces the myth of British exceptionalism and overlooks the significance of the contribution to the public sphere by intellectuals from other disciplines than sociology. It discusses Turner's assumption that intellectual innovation requires massive disruptive and violent change and suggests that such an assertion is not necessarily supported by studies of the conditions of the production of knowledge. Finally, the paper argues that Turner's anguish at the absence of public intellectuals among sociologists in Britain is symptomatic of New Left thinking that models the idea of the intellectual on Gramsci. In conclusion, the paper asserts that Turner's idea of the intellectual fails to note the tension at the heart of the role of public intellectual–the tension between specialist and non-specialist functions.

Libraries and the Preservation of Public Intellectual Space and Heritage

2020 ◽  
pp. 218-230
Author(s):  
Anil Kumar Nauriya
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intellectual Heritage ◽  
Epistemic Justice ◽  
Primary Means

There is one aspect of Libraries that needs particularly to be highlighted, namely the role of the public library as a par excellence site that upholds the public intellectual space when contrasted to the more restricted academic space. It is a primary means by which public intellectuals and, through them, civil society, may hold even academia to account when the latter becomes confined by dead habits or restricted by institutional, bureaucratic, elitist or other, structures. It needs to be emphasized that academia and scholarship are not necessarily congruent. The interplay between academia and scholarship is crucial and that is made possible by the public library. Open libraries, especially public libraries, are at least as vital as the academia. The importance of a library or a museum is not necessarily related to its location or its size. “Preservation” and “intellectual heritage” need to be decolonized in order to realize epistemic justice.

scholarly journals POPULAR HISTORY, POST-WAR LIBERALISM, AND THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IN RICHARD HOFSTADTER'S THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION (1948)

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 1133-1155 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICK WITHAM
Keyword(s):  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Liberal Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
Middlebrow Literature ◽  
The Status ◽  
Post War

ABSTRACTThis article examines the status of Richard Hofstadter's classic work The American political tradition (1948) as a ‘popular history’. It uses documents drawn from Hofstadter's personal papers, those of his publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., as well as several of his contemporaries, to pursue a detailed reconstruction of the manner in which the book was written, edited, and reviewed, and to demonstrate how it circulated within, and was defined by, the literary culture of the 1940s and 1950s. The article explores Hofstadter's early career conception of himself as a scholar writing for audiences outside of the academy, reframes the significance of so-called ‘middlebrow’ literature, and, in doing so, offers a fresh appraisal of the links between popular historical writing, liberal politics, and the role of public intellectuals in the post-war United States.

scholarly journals Juridical Analysis of the Legal Relationship Between Doctors and Patients in Health Services

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Enny Agustina
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Community Health Services ◽  
Direct Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Relationship ◽  
The Government ◽  
Service Standards ◽  
The Relationship

The doctor and patient relationship is a pattern that is born among the doctor and the patient before continuing to the act of health care. And health services, is a concept used in providing health services to the community. Health services is a sub-system of health services whose main purpose is health services in terms of Preventive (preventive), Promotive (improving health,) Curative (healing health) and Rehabilitative (recovery) are all efforts mobilized by the government in improving the quality of health services prime and in accordance with standard operating procedures and health service standards. This study uses a method of approach to the community so that the public knows in more detail about the juridical analysis of the legal relationship among doctors and patients in health services. The results of this study are in terms of the legal aspects of health, the relationship among doctors and patients cannot decide what is called health services by doctors who have a direct role in improving tasks for the community in order to realize a good and quality society.�Analisis Yuridis Hubungan Hukum Antara Dokter Dan Pasien Dalam Layanan Kesehatan�Hubungan dokter dan pasien merupakan pola yang lahir antara dokter dan pasien sebelum berlanjut pada tindakan pelayanan kesehatan. Dan pelayanan kesehatan,merupakan sebuah konsep yang digunakan dalam memberikan layanan kesehatan kepada masyarakat. Pelayanan kesehatan adalah sebuah sub sistem pelayanan kesehatan yang ditujuan utamanya adalah pelayanan kesehatan dalam hal Preventif (pencegahan), Promotif (peningkatan kesehatan,) Kuratif (penyembuhan kesehatan) dan Rehabilitatif (pemulihan) merupakan segala upaya yang dikerahkan oleh pemerintah dalam peningkatan mutu pelayanan kesehatan yang prima dan sesuai dengan standar prosedur dan standar operasional prosedur pelayanan kesehatan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode pendekatan kepada masyarakat sehingga masyarakat tahu lebih detail tentang analisis yuridis hubungan hukum antara dokter dan pasien dalam peyanan kesehatan. Hasil penelitian ini yaitu Dalam hal aspek hukum kesehatan, hubungan antara dokter dan pasien tidak dapat memutuskan apa yang disebut layanan kesehatan oleh dokter yang memiliki peran langsung dalam tugas-tugas perbaikan untuk masyarakat dalam rangka mewujudkan masyarakat yang baik dan berkualitas.

Lost in Translation: Climate Denial and the Return of the Political

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert Goeminne
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Climate Modeling ◽  
Negotiation Model ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The One ◽  
Lost In Translation ◽  
The Relationship

In this deliberately provocative commentary, I interrogate the relationship between two critical perspectives on the one-sided scientific framing of the climate issue: a constructivist interpretation of climate modeling on the one hand and the debate in political theory on the depoliticization of the public sphere on the other. I argue how they could be tied together in order to provide an enriched understanding of climate denial as a symptom rather than a cause of dysfunctional climate politics. It is my claim that in attempting to translate the universal validity of scientific knowledge into the contours of an inclusive, consensual negotiation model, the constitutive role of exclusion in the emergence of scientific objectivity is overlooked.

Auf der Suche nach einer komplexen Friedenslogik –Versuch einer metatheoretischen Verortung undNeuorientierung

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-163
Author(s):  
Wilfried Graf
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Dialogical Logic ◽  
Logic Of Action ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms ◽  
Different Levels

The dualistic juxtaposition of the logic of peace and the logic of security is necessary for the political debate but not sufficient to overcome the dominance of the security approach in political theory and practice. This article seeks to broaden and deepen the understanding of the relationship between the logic of peace and the logic of security on different levels of meaning. Firstly, this relationship is explored on the level of meaning of a logic of action and intervention. Secondly, this relationship is discussed on the level of meaning of a logic of research and the meta-theoretical paradigms on which the logic of action is constructed. Thirdly, this relationship is further reflected on the level of meaning of a logic of thought and rationality. Founded in a philosophy of complexity a dialogical “logic of complexity” is proposed as a metaparadigm for a complex logic of peace that is both critical and integrative of the logic of security.

scholarly journals EDUCATION IN THE PUBLIC REPRODUCTION SYSTEM

2021 ◽  
pp. 210-216
Author(s):  
Юлия Олеговна Андрианова
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Reproductive Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reproduction System ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

Образование задействовано в системе исторически сложившихся институтов общества, которые организуют социальные, экономические, политические, правовые, нравственные, этические и иные отношения. Статья посвящена анализу места и роли образования в системе общественного воспроизводства, а также определению роли системы образования в системе общественного воспроизводства. Актуальность исследования обусловлена проблемой недооценки системы образования как элемента воспроизводственного процесса, способного обеспечить социально-экономическое развитие страны. Научная новизна полученных результатов отражена в выявлении сущности и качества взаимосвязи образования и общественного воспроизводства, выделении соответствующего функционального поля. Education is involved in the system of historical institutions of society that organize social, economic, political, legal, moral, ethical and other relations. The article is devoted to the analysis of the place and role of education in the system of social reproduction, as well as to the definition of the role of the education system in the system of social reproduction. The relevance of the study is due to the problem of underestimating the education system as an element of a reproductive process that can ensure the socio-economic development of the country. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is reflected in the identification of the essence and quality of the relationship between education and social reproduction, the allocation of the corresponding functional field.

War and the Public Intellectual: Cosmopolitanism and Anti-Cosmopolitanism in the Kosovo Debate in Germany

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Scott
Keyword(s):  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nato Bombing

NATO's intervention in Kosovo dramatically highlighted the differences and disagreements between cosmopolitans and their critics. This article offers a critically summary of the arguments of both camps (and various positions within them) as they unfolded in the German media, and particularly in the broadsheet press, during the NATO bombing campaign. An attempt is made to fill in the broader context by pointing out some differences between the debates in Britain and those in Germany. While the implications and possible weaknesses of the cosmopolitan position is the main focus, the role of public intellectuals the media is also discussed.

scholarly journals Gloc-9 as Organic Public Intellectual: Hip and Polished, Raw and Cool

Plaridel ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-48
Author(s):  
Lara Katrina Mendoza
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Political Will ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Definition Of

This paper will present Aristotle Pollisco—the singer-rapper-songwriter known as Gloc-9—as an organic and a as-yet-unrealised public intellectual. The term “organic” describes Gloc 9’s lack of academic or institutional recognition. No academic institutions recognize his level of influence and power. As a public intellectual, however, Gloc-9 enjoys immense popularity with his core fanbase, which is largely made up of listeners from the lower classes. This paper uses both Antonio Gramsci’s definition of the organic public intellectual and Edward Said’s claim regarding the exhortation of public intellectuals who exercise their political will in the public sphere. Mikhail Bakhtin’s discourse on the carnivalesque will bolster this paper’s claim that Gloc-9 assumes the role of an organic public intellectual through his music. In attempting to confront powerful institutions, Gloc-9 upends the social order through his songs rather than engaging other public intellectuals and scholars in ideological discourse. The paper will closely examine five of Gloc-9’s chart-topping songs dealing with poverty, social injustice, gender inequality, and corruption.

Management of Economics and State "Bottom"

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 76-91
Author(s):  
E. D. Solozhentsev
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Probabilistic Models ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Special Software ◽  
Human Quality ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The scientific problem of economics “Managing the quality of human life” is formulated on the basis of artificial intelligence, algebra of logic and logical-probabilistic calculus. Managing the quality of human life is represented by managing the processes of his treatment, training and decision making. Events in these processes and the corresponding logical variables relate to the behavior of a person, other persons and infrastructure. The processes of the quality of human life are modeled, analyzed and managed with the participation of the person himself. Scenarios and structural, logical and probabilistic models of managing the quality of human life are given. Special software for quality management is described. The relationship of human quality of life and the digital economy is examined. We consider the role of public opinion in the management of the “bottom” based on the synthesis of many studies on the management of the economics and the state. The bottom management is also feedback from the top management.

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