Intellectuals
An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society, who may also propose solutions for the normative problems of society, and thus gains authority as a public intellectual. Coming from the world of culture, either as a creator or as a mediator, the intellectual participates in politics, either to defend a concrete proposition or to denounce an injustice, usually by either rejecting or producing or extending an ideology, and by defending a system of values. As a descriptive term of person, personality, and profession, the word intellectual identifies three traits: Educated; …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English
Founded over a century ago, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is regarded as one of the most important institutional carriers of Canadian and American Mennonite identity. Generations of Mennonites and …
drawing particularly on disaffected clergy and intellectuals, incipient Anabaptism soon under- went a series …
CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 31 August 2024 French
author was harshly criticized in many quarters for this banner on the book’s cover.Six renowned intellectuals published a collective letter in Le Monde on January 22, 2024. They wrote: “This ecological declinism …
this banner on the book’s cover. Six renowned intellectuals published a collective letter in Le Monde on …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 6 August 2024 English
The best-known songs in the world are violent, sexist, and religious — so why do we celebrate national anthems when we should be rewriting them?“Fascinating and thoughtful ... showcases how …
camps. Those suspected of disloyalty or being intellectuals (and just wearing glasses was sufficient proof …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 2 July 2024 English
The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America.Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become …
French Canadian. The strike engaged New York intellectuals for the first time in working- class unrest …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English
Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, …
insights, as well as those of a network of intellectuals and activists in the former Yugoslav lands … spaces”: the supranational projects through which intellectuals, activists, and writers sought to nestle the … attentionIntroduction 7 to the ways Yugoslav intellectuals mapped their political and cul- tural geographies … neighbours.18 Precisely to avoid this fate, intellectuals across Central, Eastern, and South East Europe … with this new geopolitical paradigm. These intellectuals became convinced that national independence …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English
Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities. Women are …
experts, policy- analysts, policy-makers, and intellectuals with specialized knowledge; global civil society …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 11 June 2024 English
An anarchist online group sets out to assassinate the corporate elites they believe have turned culture into a digital nightmare.“A blistering look at what our online and offline lives have …
where it was much more difficult and cruel on intellectuals.” “My parents were executed for crimes they …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 6 June 2024 English
Tracing Louis Riel’s metamorphosis from traitor to hero, Braz argues that, through his writing, Riel resists his portrayal as both a Canadian patriot and a pan-Indigenous leader. After being hanged …
dealing with Riel, today’s Métis artists and intellectuals reveal much discomfort about the politics of …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English
In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday …
sophists started up strangely enough as a group of intellectuals teaching about virtue and excellence.6 They … their darkest form, sophists are dishonest intellectuals, driven not by truth and wisdom but by money …
CHB: Coach House Books · 7 May 2024 English
THE TORONTO STAR'S "30 BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS SPRING" The updated edition of a Toronto favourite meanders around some of the city’s unique neighborhoods and considers what …
avant-garde group of artists, writers, and intellectuals, concerned, in part, with the effects of geography … – manufacturing a steady stream of public intellectuals – could be why a civic renaissance is possible …
