Review article

On (Ir)Responsibility Of Intellectuals

Rudi Rizman ; Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

Drawing on the classification of the roles of intellectuals, the author focuses
on the issue to whom and for whom intellectuals are investing their voice.
The article discusses several critical issues: firstly, the issue of a gap between
theoretical knowledge and practical competences, secondly, the concept
of public intellectual, thirdly, Chomsky s paradigm of the responsibility of
intellectuals, and fourthly, the historical resonance of intellectuals in the
neoliberal imagined society. The author opposes the views that the end of
history and the end of ideology terminated the salient role of intellectuals and
alternatively builds his argument on their manifold and multiple commitments
in the spheres of civil society.The neoliberal order invites in this regard a
number of challenges and responsibilities: an opportunity to open up new
opportunities for the roles of intellectuals in the imposed market-managed and
consequentially structurally changed society. Intellectuals at this very historical
moment should turn from mere interpreters to legislators, as Zygmunt Bauman
expects them to.

Keywords

intellectuals; ideology; responsibility; Zygmunt Bauman

Hrčak ID:

145787

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/145787

Publication date:

15.9.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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