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- Title
Begrenzte Möglichkeiten. Zur Kommerzialisierung und Akademisierung der Intellektuellenrolle.
- Authors
Martin, Susanne
- Abstract
Two traditional spheres of intellectual engagement, the public media and the academic field, have been undergoing enduring structural changes for over three decades. These changes are often considered the main cause of a crisis or even of the disappearance of intellectuals altogether. However, what changes do these assumptions refer to and how do they affect the current role and function of the intellectual? To answer these questions, the paper develops an approach focusing on how social structure and experience influence intellectual practice from a comparative historical perspective. In order to provide a basis for comparison, it examines the intellectual practice of Theodor W. Adorno. Adorno, so it shows, systematically kept the contradictions characteristic of public and academic intellectual engagement unresolved by reclaiming an "in-between"-position. Against this background, the paper interprets both the structural changes in public media and academia observable since the 1970s as processes of "disambiguation" making a contradiction-orientated intellectual practice more difficult. As a result, one can observe an extended commercial as well as a narrowed academic intellectual practice, each effectively limiting the political impact of intellectual engagement.
- Subjects
ADORNO, Theodor W., 1903-1969; SOCIAL structure; INTELLECTUALS; ACADEMIA; SPHERES; SOCIAL change; SOCIAL comparison; PUBLIC sphere
- Publication
Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 2022, Vol 32, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0863-1808
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11609-022-00465-x