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Saturday, October 31, 2009

A new form of intellectual: the dissident

http://books.google.com/books?id=UK4XHweWFuIC&pg=PA292&lpg=PA292&dq=A+New+Type+of+Intellectual:+The+Dissident&source=bl&ots=pgnpZMHYCB&sig=dgBr0AEe5mhez5yRm-6xmzValpM&hl=en&ei=QoDsSr7TF8PelAeCh6CABQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=A%20New%20Type%20of%20Intellectual%3A%20The%20Dissident&f=false

p. 294 - communal but particular, addressed to all but carried out by each individaul such is the culture of our age when it is not only an echo chamber of the past. From this point on, another society, another body, another body starts to emerge.

Task of the intellectual who has inherited "unproductive" (..) called humanities - not just to produce right t ospeak and behave in an individual way in our culture but to assert its POLITICAL vlaue. Failing this, the funciton of the intellectual strangely turns out to be one of coercion.
In teh wake of the priest, i ti sthe Marxian and the Freudian who today have become these manufacturers of an all-embracing rationality.
closes gap - magic password reasserting slave dialectic.

relates it to life - unemployment - student iwth no job...

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