Intellectuals

(see also Knowledge Work and New Class)

General Resources
The Academic Intellectual
The "Public Intellectual"
The University Administrator
Sociology of Knowledge

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General Resources

• Willam M. Banks, Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998)
• Pierre Bourdieu, "The Corporation of the Universal: The Role of Intellectuals in the Modern World," Telos 81 (1989): 99-110
• Lewis A. Coser, Men of Ideas: A Sociologist's View (1965; rpt. New York: Free Press, 1997)
• Bibliography of Writings on "Intellectuals" (Timothy J. Wager, U. California, Santa Barbara)
• Philip Elliott, "Intellectuals, the 'Information Society' and the Disappearance of the Public Sphere," in Media, Culture, and Society: A Critical Reader, ed. Richard Collins, et al., (London: Sage, 1986), pp. 105-15
• Bengt Furåker, "The Future of the Intelligentsia Under Capitalism," in Eyerman (1987), pp. 78-94
• Aleksander Gella, ed., The Intelligentsia and the Intellectuals: Theory, Method, and Case Study (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1976)
• Alvin W. Gouldner, The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class: A Frame of Reference, Theses, Conjectures, Arguments, and an Historical Perspective on the Role of Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in the International Class Contest of the Modern Era (New York: Seabury, 1979)
  1. synopsis (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
• Nicholas Garnham, "The Media and Narratives of the Intellectual," Media, Culture and Society 17 (1995): 359-84
• Douglas Kellner (UCLA), "Intellectuals and New Technologies"
• Gyorgy Konrád and Ivan Szelenyi, The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power, trans. Andrew Arato and Richard E. Allen (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979)
• Seymour M. Lipset, "American Intellectuals: Their Politics and Status," in Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics, ed. Seymour M. Lipset, pp. 332-71
• Talcott Parsons, " 'The Intellectual': A Social Role Category," in Rieff (1969), pp. 3-26
• Philip Rieff, On Intellectuals: Theoretical Studies, Case Studies (Garden City, NY: Anchor /Doubleday, 1969)
• Edward W. Said, Representations of the Intellectual (New York: Vintage / Random House, 1994)
• Philip Schlesinger, "In Search of the Intellectuals: Some Comments on Recent Theory," in Media, Culture, and Society: A Critical Reader, ed. Richard Collins, et al., (London: Sage, 1986), pp. 84-104
• Florian Znaniecki, The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge (New York: Harper & Row, 1968)

The Academic Intellectual

• Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio, The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1994) (esp. Chap. 6, "Contradictions of the Knowledge Class: Power, Proletarianization, and Intellectuals")
• Don Anderson (U. Sydney), "Teachers, Intellectuals, Politics" ("Surely one had a choice: merely to accept such interventionist restructuring of universities . . . or, on the other hand, to critique such New Statism"; extracted from longer piece published in 1995)
• Ruth Barcan, "The Body of the (Humanities) Academic, or, 'What is an Academic' " (extract) (1996) ("considers the academic body as a site of contesting discourses of professional practice") (Australian Humanities Review)
• Thomas Bender, Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993)
• Pierre Bourdieu, Homo Academicus, trans. Peter Collier (Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1988)
• Paul A. Bové, Intellectuals in Power: A Genealogy of Critical Humanism (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1986)
• Howard R. Bowen, American Professors: A National Resource Imperiled (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986)
• Ernest L. Boyer
  1. The Academic Profession: An International Perspective (Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1994)
  2. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate (1991: Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1998)
• Amital Etzioni, ed., The Semi-Professions and Their Organization: Teachers, Nurses, Social Workers (New York: Free Press, 1969)
• Ron Eyerman, et al., ed., Intellectuals, Universities, and the State in Western Modern Societies (Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1987), pp. 78-94
• Russell Jacoby, The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (New York: Noonday / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987)
• John Guillory
  1. "Literary Critics as Public Intellectuals: Class Analysis and the Crisis of the Humanities," in Rethinking Class, ed. Wai Chee Dimock and Myron T. Gilmore (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1994), pp. 107-49
  2. "Preprofessionalism: What Graduate Students Want," Profession 1996 (New York: MLA, 1996), pp. 91-99 (argues that the current "preprofessionalism" of literature graduate students under the gun of the sparse job market--as attested by the perceived need to publish and give papers--is an extreme form of the "phantasmic" desires of the literature profession generally, caught as it is in the paradox between its long-term decline in social centrality and its imitation/internalization of mainstream organizational and productivity norms; also links the present hyper-politicization of literary studies to its social marginality)
• Harvey J. Kaye, "Beyond the Last Intellectuals," in Henry A. Giroux with Patrick Shannon, eds., Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 25-32
• C. Wright Mills, "The Professors," in his White Collar: The American Middle Classes (New York: 1951; rpt. Galaxy, 1956), pp. 129-36
• Catherine R. Stimpson, "The Public Duties of Our Profession," Profession 1996 (New York: MLA, 1996), pp. 100-102
• Humphrey McQueen, "Professions of Power" (extract) (1996) ("looks at the subservience of academics to the power of state and business") (Australian Humanities Review)
• Richard Ohmann, English in America: A Radical View of the Profession (1976) (excerpt) (excerpt on the New Criticism at the moment of the so-called "end of ideology" in mid-20th-century U.S. intellectual culture; "Our dogma is academic freedom, which in practice means that you can think and write what you like, but as your speech approaches to political action you are more and more likely to find yourself without a job. Universities are supposed to remain neutral, stay politically pure, as are other academic institutions like the MLA. The literary wing of the academy wholly subscribed to these doctrines through the fifties . . . ") (Al Fireis, U. Penn)
• Bruce Robbins, Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture (New York: Verso, 1993)
• Jeffrey Williams, "The Romance of the Intellectual and the Question of Profession," in Henry A. Giroux with Patrick Shannon, eds., Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 49-64

The "Public Intellectual"

• Carol Becker, "The Artist as Public Intellectual," in Henry A. Giroux with Patrick Shannon, eds., Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 13-24
• David Theo Goldberg, "Whither West? The Making of a Public Intellectual," in Henry A. Giroux with Patrick Shannon, eds., Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 33-47
• John Guillory, "Literary Critics as Public Intellectuals: Class Analysis and the Crisis of the Humanities," in Rethinking Class, ed. Wai Chee Dimock and Myron T. Gilmore (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1994), pp. 107-49

The University Administrator

• Michael D. Cohen and James G. March, Leadership and Ambiguity: The American College President (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974)
• University Administrators' Inaugural Addresses (see "Vision of the Administrator" on Contemporary Reflections on the University page)
• Ruth Neumann, "Academic Work: Perceptions of Senior Academic Administrators" (Centre for Learning and Teaching; University of Technology, Sydney) (text file with long lines not easily read in a browser; needs to be downloaded and reformatted)

Sociology of Knowledge

• L. Galambos, "The American Economy and the Re-Organization of the Sources of Knowledge," in Oleson (1979), pp. 269-82
• Richard A. Lanham (UCLA), "The Implications of Electronic Information for the Sociology of Knowledge [1]"
• Fritz Machlup
  1. The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1962)
  2. Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution, and Economic Significance, 2 vols. (Princeton: Princeton U. Press)
     • I. Knowledge and Knowledge Production (1980)
     • II. The Branches of Learning (1982)
  3. Michael Rogers Rubin and Mary Taylor Huber, with Elizabeth Lloyd Taylor, The Knowledge Industry in the United States, 1960-1980 (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1986) (update of Machlup's work published by participants and collaborators in his project after his death)
• E. Doyle McCarthy, Knowledge as Culture: The New Sociology of Knowledge (London: Routledge, 1996)
• A. Oleson and J. Voss, ed. The Organization of Knowledge in Modern America (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1979)
• Sociology of Knowledge Page (Martin Ryder, U. Colorado, Denver)
• Will I Get a Degree? ("This applies to European Union countries. It assumes you are already at university. You start with 50 points, add or subtract at each question. Your score is your chance of getting a degree"; includes bibliography of works relevant to sociology of education; in English, Portuguese, and Dutch) (Paul Treanor)