Humanities and Social Sciences in the Maelstrom of Hegemony of the So-called Transition: Performativity of the Public Intellectual Today

Abstract

This article deals with several problem areas concerning structural issues related to the contemporary social position of the humanities and social sciences, the nature of today’s hegemony and present articulations of critical thinking. The primary focus is on the problems of the higher education system resulting from the Bologna process and the social role and importance of the figure of the public intellectual today, whereas the secondary focus is on connecting these issues with the characteristics of today’s hegemony and the so-called transition. The text argues that the public intellectual should be considered and analyzed as a performative figure belonging to each period articulating and presenting public intellectual narratives, in other words, it is claimed that the public intellectual echoes the period itself as one of its mirror reflections.

the Bologna reform of higher education, hegemony, the so-called transition, the public intellectual