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128 pages
First published January 1, 1994
"The central fact for me is, I think, that the intellectual is an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion to, as well as for, a public. And this role has an edge to it, and cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'锚tre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug. The intellectual does so on the basis of universal principles: that all human beings are entitled to expect decent standards of behavior concerning freedom and justice from worldly powers or nations, and that deliberate or inadvertent violations of these standards need to be testified and fought against courageously." (11-12)
L'intellettuale non ha il compito di mettere il pubblico a suo agio.
Non si tratta di opposizione fine a s茅 stessa. Si tratta di porre domande, di operare distinzioni, di richiamare alla memoria ci貌 che tendiamo a trascurare o scavalcare nell'urgenza di unirci al coro giudicante.