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Tra passato e presente passa un sottile filo rosso che parla di noi. Per trovarlo dobbiamo cercare di interpretare gli eventi di ieri e di oggi, ascoltarne i testimoni e raccogliere indizi sulla nostra storia interrogandoci lungo il cammino sulla direzione che sta prendendo. È quello che fa Walter Veltroni nel suo nuovo libro, da cronista curioso e sensibile, quando rievoca gli anni di piombo o analizza le paure dell'Italia contemporanea, quando ricorda le vittime della Shoah e condanna le esplosioni di odio sociale, quando fa parlare il cardinal Ravasi e lo psicanalista Umberto Galimberti o conversa con Adriana Asti, Renato Zero, Woody Allen, Ornella Vanoni o Francesco Totti. Quando ricorda Maradona, Gigi Proietti, Raffaella Carrà, Gino Strada, David Sassoli, gli eroi del calcio nazionale del 1968 e moltissimi altri. Dalla politica alla scuola, dalla cronaca allo spettacolo, dal cinema allo sport: ogni storia che l'autore racconta in questo libro attraversa le nostre emozioni e sollecita la memoria del Paese per comporre un mosaico più ampio in cui possiamo ritrovare in fondo noi stessi. Come in un ideale diario sentimentale degli italiani.

Gibt es ihn noch – den Intellektuellen? Oder bleibt nur, ihm ein „Grabmal'(Lyotard) zu setzen? Ähnlich wie im Falle Godots in Becketts Theaterstück herrschen heute Zweifel an seiner Existenz und Wirkungsmacht. Zugleich haben jedoch die Umbrüche der jüngsten Zeit – beschleunigte Globalisierung, Pluralisierungsprozesse, Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit – in Verbindung mit Intellektuellenkritik und intellektueller Selbstreflexion neue Rollenmodelle entstehen lassen. Der vorliegende Band beschäftigt sich mit den Wandlungen im Handlungsrahmen, in der sozialen Rolle und in den Wirkungsmustern von Intellektuellen und diskutiert ihre Bedeutung in der politischen Öffentlichkeit seit den 1960er Jahren. Im Zentrum stehen Figuren, die am klassischen Vorbild orientiert blieben, das Wechselverhältnis von Intellektuellen und sozialen Bewegungen, rechter (Anti-)Intellektualismus sowie das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen intellektueller Autonomie und politischem Engagement.

The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives—for better... or for worse...From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because they might turn out to be true.What do the world's leading scientists and thinkers consider to be their most dangerous idea? Through the leading online forum Edge (www.edge.org), the call went out, and this compelling and easily digestible volume collects the answers. From using medication to permanently alter our personalities to contemplating a universe in which we are utterly alone, to the idea that the universe might be fundamentally inexplicable, What Is Your Dangerous Idea? takes an unflinching look at the daring, breathtaking, sometimes terrifying thoughts that could forever alter our world and the way we live in it.Contributors includeDaniel C. Dennett • Jared Diamond • Brian Greene • Matt Ridley • Howard Gardner and Freeman Dyson, among others

Angie Sandhu examines the relation between intellectuals and society through political theory and a consideration of contemporary debates in both Britain and the US. She sets out a new argument that calls for intellectuals to address their own elite locations in society by challenging notions of intellectual difference and autonomy.

The Glasgow Enlightenment is widely regarded as the first book to explore the nature and accomplishments of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Glasgow in a comprehensive manner. In addition to a general introduction by the editors, there are seven chapters devoted to Glasgow University professors, such as Adam Smith, Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, John Millar, William Leechman, and John Anderson. At a time when the Glasgow economy was booming in the strength of its trade with America, these and other Glasgow men of science and learning were making major contributions to the European world of philosophy, law, political economy, natural philosophy, medicine, and religious toleration. There are also five chapters on other individuals and topics, including the physician and author John Moore, James Boswell during his student days, images of Glasgow in popular poetry, and Popular party clergymen who challenged the dominant views of the academic Enlightenment with an alternative vision of liberty and piety. This edition features a new bibliographical preface by Richard B. Sher that discusses the substantial secondary literature on eighteenth-century Glasgow and the Glasgow Enlightenment since the original publication of this book more than a quarter of a century ago.