To browse Academia. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. I would like to particularly acknowledge Pat Gehrke, whose work and spirit has been a tireless force in both my academic and intellectual life.
Without Pat, nothing. Role of Public Intellectuals is Public Sphere is examined. Julian Bender's Trahison de clerc is anaylsed in light of recent challenges in contemporary Asian Society. This is a shared phenomenon; we observe this in India, in Russia, in Poland, in Hungary, and even in France. Social scientists in general and sociologists in particular are accused by political powers of developing excuses to terrorists; in some countries, they are stigmatized as external agents, as enemies of the nation.
In the Turkish case, we are witnessing the penalization of academicians in the most ruthless and unjust way. The essay addresses the definition and status of public intellectuals in relation to the work of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Accepting the definition of Richard Posner, it suggests that i most people in the humanities are not, and need not imagine they are, public intellectuals and that ii Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has gradually become a public intellectual.
Literature and film generate symbolic as well as economic capital. As such, aesthetic productions exist in various contexts following contrasting rules. Which role s do authors and filmmakers play in positioning themselves in this conflictive relation?
Bringing together fourteen essays by scholars from Germany, the USA, the UK and France, this volume examines the multiple ways in which the progressive self- fashioning of authors and filmmakers interacts with the public sphere, generating authorial postures, and thus arouses attention. It questions the autonomous nature of the artistic creation and highlights the parallels and differences between the more or less clear-cut national contexts, in order to elucidate the complexity of authorship from a multifaceted perspective, combining contributions from literary and cultural studies, as well as film, media, and communication studies.
