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Noam Chomsky Biography In the 1966 essay, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,” Chomsky challenged intellectuals “to speak the truth and expose lies,” and he carried his protests beyond the printed page: he became a tax resister and he was arrested in 1967 at the Pentagon while protesting military involvement in Southeast Asia. In Deterring Democracy (1992) and in other books he has focused on trade and economic issues and accuses the Government of being a “rogue superpower.” “I’m a citizen of the United States,” says Chomsky, “and I have a share of responsibility for what it does. Outside of academia Chomsky is better known as a political activist—a role that he vigorously assumed as an early and outspoken critic and protester of the Vietnam War. www.americanswhotellthetruth.org /pgs/portraits/Noam_Chomsky.html   (354 words)

FORWARD : Forward Forum He describes the intellectuals and their failure to oppose in these words: "The country's liberal intelligentsia who, Pilate-like, have washed their hands of responsibility." That is, Judt compares Israel's liberal intellectuals to Pontius Pilate, who took no responsibility for killing Jesus. A portion of the crowd chanted, "Martyrs, not murderers." I suppose that many of the individuals in that part of the crowd would have explained that, in mouthing their Ms, they intended only to promote the cause of Palestinian rights, which is surely a worthy cause. The founding theorists of Zionism in the 19th and early 20th centuries did not escape the prevailing doctrines of their own time, but their theories were chiefly theories of Jewish national revival and self-defense. www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.05.24/oped1.html   (3129 words)

Epilogue This is the problem of the guilt and responsibility which intellectuals in the post-totalitarian age prescribe for themselves, and which society too attributes to them. The next question is why intellectuals, who are morbidly inclined to make their sense of guilt a constant "theme," try to impose guilt on society, which at times can undergo a dangerous moral crisis. Objectively speaking, however, the intelligentsia seems doomed to be "in the service" of society, even when certain representatives of that stratum deliberately give up (at least at the level of their own self-awareness) any kind of active participation in the power structures. www.crvp.org /book/Series04/IVA-6/epilogue.htm   (3129 words)

Leigh Denault During the May Fourth Movement in 1919, a new generation of young intellectuals in the form of impassioned student leaders claimed the responsibility of instituting reform, calling for an end to the imperialist presence in China. While the May Fourth intellectuals felt themselves to be on the brink of a new era, in which they might hold leadership roles, the students at Tiananmen looked back on years of famine, purges, and repression. Having once defined themselves in relation to the imperial government, during the May Fourth Movement many intellectuals defined themselves by their patriotism, which was expressed in their plans to modernize China through an infusion of new ideas from the West. www.watson.org /~leigh/savingchina.html   (1120 words)

"Clash of Civilizations" Intellectuals are, as Schumpeter put it "people who wield the power of the spoken and the written word, and one of the touches that distinguish them from other people who do the same is the absence of direct responsibility for practical affairs." In some measure, the advanced industrial societies have spawned a stratum of At the present time, a significant challenge comes from the intellectuals and related group s who assert their disgust with the corruption, materialism, and inefficiency of democracy and with the subservience of democratic government to "monopoly capitalism." The development of an "adversary culture" among intellectuals has affected students, scholars and the media. According to the most reliable data, compiled by Sidney S. Culbert, a professor at the University of Washington, in 1958 roughly 9.8 percent of human beings spoke English as a first or second languae; in 1992, 7.6 percent did. users.cyberone.com.au /myers/huntington.html   (1120 words)

Social Anarchism/To The Editors The responsibility of intellectuals includes also the recognition that we cannot live above or apart from our own time and what it imposes on us...to have the courage of loyalty....Loyalty signifies, simply enough, love of the family that nourished you and taught you principles of moral reciprocity. Accusations of being merely a "damned undercutting intellectual" are met with claims of consistency "in my critical role." (p.42) Widmer's essay follows the failures of others who have responded to defining the intellectual: a sloppy application of terms. Similarly, Widmer's activities in the armed forces identify faulty policy (and resist that policy) without identifying and resisting the larger issues of which that policy is symptomatic. library.nothingness.org /articles/SA/en/display_printable/279   (363 words)

Editorial July, 1999 Emami had been in jail because of his responsibility for the killing of several Iranian dissident intellectuals and writers earlier this year. According to well-informed sources in Tehran, Emami had confessed to masterminding the brutal killings of five dissidents and intellectuals on the instructions of his master, Ali Fallahian. The right wing papers accused Emami of having links to Israel and the USA in an effort to give life to their previous claim that agents of foreign powers had committed the murders. www.caisuk.com /july99/edlet0799.htm   (378 words)

On Not Being a Patsy for Today's Intellectuals There were few issues of media bias in the first of these three events (the O.J. trial) because — at least among the press and intelligentsia — the political and ideological issues were not as heightened, polarized, or emotional: Liberal and conservative journalists and intellectuals who followed the legal proceedings agreed O.J. was guilty. If you live in a country where the press has a strong bias or blind spot (true in much of the world), you can defend yourself by using a library, reading non-local or foreign publications, or, easiest of all, surfing the web. There was nothing but bias in the presentation of the last two events (the prolonged coverage of Florida and the immediate treatment of Rice). www.theatlasphere.com /columns/printer_040419_coates_notapatsy.php   (378 words)

Jacques Derrida [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] Derrida was twice refused a position in the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure (where Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and the majority of French intellectuals and academics began their careers), but he was eventually accepted to the institution at the age of 19. To represent Derrida's position more precisely, true responsibility consists in oscillating between the demands of that which is wholly other (in Abraham's case, God, but also any particular other) and the more general demands of a community (see Section 6). Responsibility is enduring this trial of the undecidable decision, where attending to the call of a particular other will inevitably demand an estrangement from the "other others" and their communal needs. www.iep.utm.edu /d/derrida.htm   (9978 words)

Amazon.com: Imagining the Balkans: Books: Maria N. Todorova At the same time, Todorova would not allow Balkan political leaders and intellectuals to shift blame and responsibility for their own actions to history, to foreign intervention or to five centuries of Ottoman occupation. Given the current events concerning the Balkans, and especially the disintegration of former Yugoslavia, this book will be of great help to students of history, political history, their teachers and intellectuals in general. Old metaphores such as "the Balkan Pouder Keg" are shown to be only a way of dismissing a whole group of people as "irrational peasants." Although quit heavy in theory, a worth while read for any serious history student. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195087518?v=glance   (1570 words)

Polish Prosecutors Launch Probe Into 1940 Soviet War Crimes - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM Polish war crimes prosecutors have opened an investigation into the 1940 massacre in the Katyn forest of more than 21,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviet secret police, the Associated Press news agency reports. Soviet agents killed 21,768 Polish military officers, intellectuals and priests in the forests of Katyn and other places. Though a recent Russian investigation into the massacre failed to produce any new names of suspects, Kieres said he was still hopeful of success because the Polish probe would include interviews with thousands of relatives of the victims, as well as a re-examination of the files. www.mosnews.com /news/2004/12/02/katyn.shtml   (690 words)

The Bangladesh Liberation War Museum's e-book The Pakistan army and Gen. Rao Farman Ali who gave shelter, remuneration, rewards, arms, and back-up services to their collaborators named as Rajakars, Albadars, Alshams and Biharis must take the responsibility of all killings and atrocities including killing of intellectuals done by them. Rao Farman Ali himself and his fellow army colleagues who were dealing with political and civil matters including civil defenses are to take the responsibility of indiscriminate killings of Bengalees, murder, loot, arson, rape, illegal confinement and destruction of private and public properties and massacre in general. Rao Farman Ali who was directing the civil forces deployed in the cities and remote corners of the country for illegal arrest and confinement without charges. www.bangladeshmariners.com /HmdrRprt/71mass3.html   (690 words)

Catherine Gunther Kodat: High Art in Low Times This propaganda, in order to be successful, demands the cooperation of writers, teachers, and artists not as paid propagandists or state-censored time servers but as “free” intellectuals capable of policing their own jurisdictions and of enforcing acceptable standards of responsibility within the various intellectual professions. A system like this presupposes two things: a high degree of professional consciousness among intellectuals, and general economic affluence which frees the patrons of intellectual life from the need to account for the money they spend on culture. He describes the disagreement between American and Soviet notions of ballet art as one pitting “modernism” against “realism,” but these terms are notoriously vague and, as he himself notes, there is nothing realistic about the dancing swans, fairies, sylphs, and bewitched princesses of the 19th-century classics beloved by the Soviets. bostonreview.net /BR29.5/kodat.html   (2532 words)

Nonviolence USA Global Hotspots2 Similarly, there were questions about an objective alliance between the Islamic guerilla and certain corrupt circles such as the "political-financial mafia" (which includes former FLN members, the former single party) in the murder of intellectuals who dared condemn the corruption which is corroding Algerian society. The group has also claimed responsibility for the assassinations of a number of Algerian Islamists. The GIA has claimed responsibility for a number of brutal massacres that observers say were staged to discredit Algeria's Islamic movement. pages.prodigy.net /gmoses/nvusa/sept11g.htm   (3256 words)

Anti-Semitism The core of her argument is that Jew-hatred, Holocaust denial, and violence against Jews in the Arab and Muslim nations, as well as in Europe, Asia, and the United States, are "symbiotically" nourished by a dogmatic form of anti-Zionism promulgated by students, intellectuals, academics, and progressives. It is a philosophical world view and interpretation of history that creates conspiracies as a way of explaining the unfolding of historical events; it is a pessimistic and frantic outlook, characterized by historian Richard Hofstadter as "the paranoid style" of politics, which shifts responsibility from the self to sinister, omnipotent others-typically and historically the Jews. America is turning against Zionism, Israel, and the Jewish people in that order and without reversal possible because God will use anti-Semitism to fulfill His promise of bringing all of the sons of Israel back to their Promised Land. www.gnfi.org /anti-semitism.html   (3586 words)

FORWARD : Arts & Letters Iain Pears's historical novel "The Dream of Scipio" seeks to unearth the origins of this syndrome by demonstrating the deep roots that antisemitism has in European culture and suggests that intellectuals bear much of the responsibility for its propagation. Recent calls emanating from universities advocating academic boycotts of Israel, and the claims by some prominent intellectuals that American support for Israel somehow justified the attacks of September 11, 2001, are but the latest symptoms of this antipathy. "The Dream of Scipio" enlarges that flicker and may thus help counter the "raucous voices" raised against Jews and the Jewish state in intellectual circles today. www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.02.07/arts1.html   (1077 words)

Frankenstein Summary & Essays - Mary Shelley Settled around Byron's fireplace in June 1816, the intimate group of intellectuals had their imaginations and the stormy weather as the stimulus and inspiration for ghoulish visions. Ultimately, the novel resonates with philosophical and moral ramifications: themes of nurture versus nature, good versus evil, and ambition versus social responsibility dominate readers' attention and provoke thoughtful consideration of the most sensitive issues of our time. She once said, "My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings." While many stage, television, and film adaptations of Frankenstein have simplified the complexity of the intellectual and emotional responses of Victor Frankenstein and his creature to their world, the novel still endures. www.enotes.com /frankenstein   (677 words)

Alternative Radio : Dennis Brutus : Intellectuals and Social Responsibility He is the author of a collection of poetry, Still the Sirens. Alternative Radio : Dennis Brutus : Intellectuals and Social Responsibility Dennis Brutus has long been involved in the South African freedom movement. www.alternativeradio.org /programs/BRUD002.shtml   (677 words)

GGGG.com - The Online Shopping Guide: Books - Religion & Spirituality - Some Favorite Books With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Her antagonistic reaction to a libertarian group seeking an end to government regulation is later echoed and modified in her encounter with a utopian community, Galt's Gulch, whose members regard self-determination rather than collective responsibility as the highest ideal. The Grapes of Wrath, written in 1939 by John Steinbeck (1902-1968), is considered by many literary critics to be the greatest of all American novels. www.gggg.com /best/books/1YV7C6N3DPKBO.html   (2811 words)

USATODAY.com - Poles mark Stalin's Katyn Forest massacre Poles on Saturday attended a Mass, sang patriotic songs and laid flowers on a monument to more than 21,000 military officers and intellectuals massacred by Soviet agents in Katyn Forest, marking the day 65 years ago that dictator Josef Stalin ordered the killings. The following year, the Soviet government accepted responsibility for the murders, but refused to refer to them as a genocide attempt, calling it a war crime on which the statute of limitations has passed. Krystyna Balcer, a 62-year-old retiree whose uncle was killed in Katyn, remained angry about the massacre and the Soviet invasion of Poland prior to World War II, carried out under a secret agreement between Stalin and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-03-05-stalin-massacre_x.htm?csp=34   (2811 words)

Jean Curthoys It is natural, then, that in A Common Humanity Gaita should develop the argument of Good and Evil for the 'educated public', taking up such contemporary issues as the Stolen Children, the nature of genocide, the Holocaust and the responsibility of intellectuals. The love of Gaita's reflections is one that recognises 'the unique preciousness of all individuals' or, in religious language, the sacredness of human life. The deepening of moral understanding, Gaita thinks, comes from what he calls 'lucid reflection' on our inner lives which, unlike what ordinarily counts as self knowledge, cannot leave a way of life undisturbed. home.vicnet.net.au /%7Eabr/Nov99/jc.html   (876 words)

Torah U’Madda’s Cultural Challenge From their friends at other universities they are familiar with the hostility to Israel routinely assumed by most intellectuals, and with the hatred, sometimes boiling over into physical threat, against Orthodox and identifiably Jewish students, that is tolerated by administrators and faculties of these schools. Based on this, if a musmach of any yeshiva takes a Conservative pulpit, he not only violates Torah law, but he also violates the commitment made to the Yeshiva and Roshei Yeshiva from which he received the semicha. If this happens, it will not be due to subversion by militantly secularist conspirators on the faculty, but because the Yeshiva core-students and committed faculty and administration will have abdicated their responsibility. yuweb.addr.com /v67i3/oped/torahummadaa.html   (2173 words)

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN Therefore, it is the responsibility of the Islamic government to provide appropriate and equal facilities to create work for all and to satisfy necessary human wants for perpetuating Man's evolutionary movement. This time, the defiant clergy of the nation who have always been at the front ranks of movements of the masses, and committed writers and intellectuals gained a new momentum under his leadership. The constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran bespeaking the cultural, social, political and economic organs of the Iranian society, is based on Islamic principles and precepts and reflects the true aspirations of the Islamic nation. www.iranologyfo.com /lowpream.htm   (1520 words)

Books In Review: The Southern Front In journals and letters southerners spoke of "my family, white and black." Southern intellectuals thus interpreted slavery as the material base of a superior social order in which the privileged classes took personal responsibility for workers. He describes slaveholding as "the essence" of Southern society; he writes that the "moral imperatives" of a slave economy "demanded" a communitarian ethos-that antebellum southerners "could not" accept autonomous individualism. While other critics of modernity, such as the Romantics, were retreating into the realm of personal feeling, southerners rooted their opposition in a geographical region with an alternative social system and real political power. www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9605/pearcey.html   (1520 words)

Commentary Magazine - On the Democratic Idea in America, by Irving Kristol ...Simply stated, the thrust of Kristol's argument is that there is an erosion of the American spirit, that this brings the intellectual into a position of responsibility for which he is ill-equipped, and that to fulfill his role he will have to begin by reforming himself... Irving Kristol's collection of essays, lionized in the Wall Street Journal, vilified in the New York Review of Books, and discussed critically only in the National Review, has received scant attention elsewhere in the many months since its publication. ...Kristol's polemics against "the intellectuals" and "the intellectual class" should not obscure the fact that he believes their role to be crucial... www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V55I5P88-1.htm   (2365 words)

Mary P. Follett: Creating Democracy, Transforming Management Out of twenty years of civic work in Boston’s immigrant neighborhoods, Follett developed ideas about the group basis of democracy and the foundations of social interaction that placed her among leading progressive intellectuals. Later in her career, she delivered influential lectures on business management that form the basis of our contemporary discourse about collaborative leadership, worker empowerment, self-managed teams, conflict resolution, the value of inclusivity and diversity, and corporate social responsibility. This book, the first biography of Follett, illuminates the life of this intriguing woman and reveals how she developed her farsighted theories about the organization of human relations. isbn.nu /0300096216   (412 words)

Liberal People's Party (Sweden) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An important voter group for the party is the intellectuals often living in the bigger cities. In the European Parliament, Folkpartiet is a member of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party group. The party platform is "social responsibility without socialism ", which includes a commitment to a free-market economy combined with comprehensive Swedish social welfare programs. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_People's_Party_(Sweden)   (412 words)

William S. Godbe Statement He was a member of a group of prominent Mormon intellectuals, known as the Godbeites, who disagreed with Brigham Young's religious and economic authoritarianism, and, for his dissent, was excommunicated from the church in 1869. He tells of his four marriages in polygamy, his eventual disengagement from the practice, and his feelings of moral responsibility to his children and former wives. William Samuel Godbe (1833-1902) was born in Middlesex, England, converted to Mormonism in 1849, and by the 1860s was one of Utah Territory's wealthiest businessmen, active in community and church affairs. www.lib.utah.edu /spc/mss/accn1507/1507.html   (200 words)

Book Review: Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture Later chapters of the book focus on Freud's influence, again distorted, on our child-rearing practices; and on his impact on America's prison reform movement: here Freud was used-misused-to remove the concept of responsibility from criminal behavior. Fuller Torrey, a psychiatrist, focuses on the ways in which Freudian theory was used by intellectuals in America's and political battles. THIS BOOK has its flaws, especially with regard to Freudian thought, but its contributions to our understanding of how Freudian concepts were used to transform American culture are important and largely unknown. www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9302/reviews/vitz.html   (1115 words)

Book Review: Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture Later chapters of the book focus on Freud's influence, again distorted, on our child-rearing practices; and on his impact on America's prison reform movement: here Freud was used-misused-to remove the concept of responsibility from criminal behavior. Fuller Torrey, a psychiatrist, focuses on the ways in which Freudian theory was used by intellectuals in America's and political battles. THIS BOOK has its flaws, especially with regard to Freudian thought, but its contributions to our understanding of how Freudian concepts were used to transform American culture are important and largely unknown. www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9302/reviews/vitz.html   (1115 words)

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