Public Intellectuals, Radical Democracy and Social Movements

A Book of Interviews

von Carmel Borg, Peter Mayo

216 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Against a backdrop of a hegemonic, global economic arrangement that has spawned astounding disparities in wealth, this book foregrounds seventeen intellectuals who are engaged in resisting corporate values and in promoting social justice and human dignity. Ranging from socially engaged professors with a track record in grassroots involvement to popular educators, the interviewees challenge the manufactured consent produced by armies of intellectuals organic to dominant ideologies. Public Intellectuals, Radical Democracy and Social Movements reminds us that strategic silence and/or indifference reproduces a common sense arrangement where critical «reading of the world» (Freire, 1987) is relegated to the periphery.

• Reihe: Counterpoints
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften Theorie und Philosophie
• ISBN: 9780820470764
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.08.2007
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York