This article addresses whether dead public intellectuals differ from living public intellectuals in terms of their social network properties in the mass and internet media. Explicated at the theoretical level is the macro-level asynchrony of the web, moving beyond micro-level conceptualizations. Networks for 662 actors which Posner defined as public intellectuals are analyzed based on data from...

Objective: To observe the concentration of serum homocysteine in intellectuals and the related influential factors. Methods: The concentrations serum homocysteine and saliva cortisol were measured in 138 intellectuals from three cities, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Chengdu in China. All the subjects had senior titles of technical post, aged 40-69 years. Results: The mean value of serum homocysteine c...

intellectuals as a group of spiritual practices and as a body of spiritual wisdom. The study has been realized through readings and meetings with Japanese Buddhist monks and/or Japanese immigrants. These intellectuals defend a religious experience based on a universal notion of representations of Japanese Buddhism, which provides them with a non-dualistic philosophical perspective and a unique ...

DOI 10.1215/016424721468308 © 2012 Duke University Press It has been twenty years since Kwame Anthony Appiah’s sharply critical essay, “Is the Postin Postmodernism the Postin Postcolonial?,” brought to our attention the deep complicities of the postcolonial intellectual with global capitalism’s management of cultural commodities out of Africa via the fetishism of the self as other.1 An unthinki...

Critical intellectuals were traditionally those who utilized their skills of speaking and writing to denounce injustices and abuses of power, and to fight for truth, justice, progress, and other positive values. In the words of Jean-Paul Sartre (1974: 285), "the duty of the intellectual is to denounce injustice wherever it occurs." The modern critical intellectual's field of action was what Hab...

Western culture has had a profound influence on Vietnamese and literature during the colonial period, especially in late 19th century first half of 20th century. During this historical records appeared about journey people to France with different purposes. Based context, article studies attitude intellectuals towards French see acculturation culture. cultural approach studying travel writing, ...

I. Intellectuals and Workers It has been but a few short years since the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, but already one finds an orthodoxy in historical interpretation. The standard story goes something like this: the key to understanding 1989 is political mobilization, first of the intellectuals and then of society at large. In the post-Stalin period, East...

Postcolonialism revolves around studying the effects of colonialism on cultures and discloses how European nations controlled "Third World" latter resisted cunning encroachments. It endeavors to decolonize postcolonial states from political conditions cultural ones, as it contests contemporary legacies historical so break present imbalances power. also seeks criticize colonial ways by seeking p...

NO AREA OF PUBLIC CONSCIENCE ILLUST"TES THE ANXIOUS MEETING of state policy and cultural mythology more than illegal immigration. As once-con#dent national polities in Europe and the United States su$er a series of economic shocks, a backlash has gathered momentum, targeting the imported labor that in many ways symbolizes the so% core of the old regimes’ economic foundations. A variety of extre...