The public intellectual trope in the United States |
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Authors: | Eleanor Townsley |
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Institution: | (1) Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts |
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Abstract: | This article takes the “public intellectual” trope as a theoretical case study, and traces how it has been used in the elite
public sphere of the contemporary United States since its coining in 1987. The analysis challenges the notion that the “public
intellectual” is primarily about broad democratic publics. It documents instead how the trope is used to frame meaning and
practice within specific intellectual publics, namely science, higher education, and journalism. By focusing on the play of
tropes around the “public intellectual” and examining the authoritative cultural members who use the trope, the trope analysis
identifies principles and strategies under contest in the journalistic, academic, and political fields of the contemporary
United States. |
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