C.E. Hill (ed.), 'Intellectuals, Identities and Popular Movements',
Middlesex University Press, 2000
'Intellectuals, Identities and Popular Movements' is a collection of eleven
essays dealing with themes in intellectual history from the eighteenth to
the twentieth centuries. Its geographical focus is Europe and more
specifically, France, Britain, Germany and the Balkans. Already existing
literatures are summarised and new contributions are made to scholarly
debates.
The full list of contributors is John Annette, Norah Carlin, Cathie
Carmichael, Carole Diethe, David Drake, Peter Fysh, Clive Hill, Martine
Morris and Richard Osborne.
Several chapters discuss important writers such as John Stuart Mill, Harriet
Taylor Mill, Leslie Stephen, Jean-Paul Sartre and Jürgen Habermas primarily
(but not exclusively) as individual intellectuals, while other chapters
examine the contribution of figures such as Adam Smith, Friedrich Nietzsche,
Henri Saint Simon and Paul Bondois to broader intellectual and social
movements. Furthermore, certain essays include discussion of organised
groups (such as the Club de l'Horloge and the Serbian Academy of Sciences)
whose interventions have contributed to significant changes in
twentieth-century politics. A recurring theme of the book is the contested
nature of personal and associational types, norms and practices aka
'identities'.
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