The Intellectual (paperback)
UK £6.99,Canada $15.00,
UK Publication February 2006
ISBN 9781840467215
Paperback
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"Fundamentally serious, yet tremendously entertaining ... treats its subject with all the irreverence it deserves" Julian Baggini, New Statesman "I devoured this in one sitting ... It's packed with juicy nuggets of genuine intellectual nourishment on every page" Dylan Evans "Zooms at various crazy angles through the history of ideas ... An entertaining manifesto" Guardian "Reading Steve Fuller is like reading Umberto Eco on speed" Jeff Hughes, author of The Manhattan Project
Chomsky, Dawkins, Germaine Greer, Martin Amis ... with their regular TV appearances, newspaper columns and soundbites in times of crisis, intellectuals are indispensable characters in the drama of modern life. But what makes them tick?
Modelled on Machiavelli's notorious tract on statecraft, The Prince, Steve Fuller?s book dissects what it means to be an intellectual. What distinguishes them from philosophers, scientists, politicians or entrepreneurs? Why are they happy to be insulted as long as they are not ignored? And who is the intellectual's favourite superhero?
As well as a history of the intellectual from Ancient Greece to post-9/11, Steve Fuller introduces exemplars from the past; Voltaire, Sartre, Norman Mailer or Bertrand Russell alongside many living examples in this essential how-to of the intellectual life.
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‘I devoured this in one sitting … It’s packed with juicy nuggets of genuine intellectual nourishment on every page’ Dylan Evans; ‘Zooms at various crazy angles through the history of ideas … An entertaining manifesto’ Guardian; ‘Reading Steve Fuller is like reading Umberto Eco on speed’ Jeff Hughes, author of The Manhattan Project
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Steve Fuller has appeared on Radio 4's Today, Radio 3's Nightwaves and Channel 4's Trial of the 21st Century. He has written for the Independent, the New Scientist and the New York Times, among others. By day, Fuller is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.
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