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The habits of intellectuals: Response to Ringer
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The Decline of the German Mandarins as discussed by the authorsritz Ringer's book failed to give the students in a graduate seminar in social theory what they sought, for a good but insufficient reason: they would warm more to the theories of Weber, Mannheim, and the others, if they knew something of the lives of these exceptional persons.Abstract:
Nearly twenty years ago I failed my first reading of Fritz Ringer's The Decline of the German Mandarins. Or, perhaps, it failed me. I wanted, then, something it could not give. What I sought, I sought for a good but insufficient reason. I wanted a book for use by students in a graduate seminar in social theory. I thought they would warm more to the theories of Weber, Mannheim, and the others, if they knew something of the lives of these exceptional persons.read more
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Does history have a future? An inquiry into history as research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the question of history's future as a research discipline in the academy and the question about the discipline's function in "pure" inquiry, but what constitutes new historical knowledge rather than simply more historical information is not clear.
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Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of Contextualization
TL;DR: Contextualization has become the reigning shibboleth of historical analysis as mentioned in this paper, especially for intellectual and cultural history, especially for the history of the 20th century, and the challenges to contemporary historians to establish relevant explanatory contexts without bringing to bear current perspectives and knowledge of developments after the original period.
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YOUTH THEATRE AND THE ARTICULATION OF CULTURAL CAPITAL: Refocusing Bourdieu Through Ethnography
Barbara Adkins,Michael Emmison +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a study of working-class and middle-class youth theatre workshops examines the processes through which this cultural form is appropriated by different class groups and suggests that at this level, there is possibly more scope for symbolic struggle between the classes than was found by Bourdieu.
China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ Initiative. Just economics?
TL;DR: The role of intellectuals in an era where information and knowledge circulates, vertiginously, with negligible restrictions is under scrutiny as discussed by the authors, which has led some to argue that the race of intellectuals is going extinct and that their role in decline.