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- Title
How Intellectuals Perform: Meaning Making and Community in the Czechoslovak Philosophical Underground.
- Authors
Zelinsky, Dominik
- Abstract
This article moves beyond the conventional strictures of the sociology of intellectuals, which is preoccupied with intellectuals' texts, power struggles and institutional trajectories. Instead, I propose to focus on intellectuals' situated performances as a way into analysis of the dynamics of their relations and mutual influences. Drawing on theoretical resources from the Strong Program in cultural sociology, I argue that their performances have both social and cultural impact through disseminating ideas, facilitating the emergence of social ties and the production of new social selves in intellectuals' audiences. I demonstrate the importance of situated intellectual performances in the case of unofficial philosophy in socialist Czechoslovakia.
- Subjects
CZECHOSLOVAKIA; PHILOSOPHY; CULTURE; SOCIALISTS; SOCIOLOGISTS
- Publication
Sociology, 2023, Vol 57, Issue 4, p715
- ISSN
0038-0385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00380385221112233