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Extant analyses identified the various channels through which the ongoing Russia‐Ukraine war is hurting Africa's aspiration toward sustainable food security. They however acknowledged that the crisis presents a viable opportunity to kickstart the process of reversing Africa's food dependence and minimizing the continent's vulnerabilities to future external food shocks. It is however feared that the well‐known leadership deficit in the continent poses significant impediment for exploiting opportunities offered by such 'good crisis'. The international community is, therefore, called upon to help Africa to better prepare for the next crisis. Taking this as our point of departure, we argue that the onus of reversing Africa's food dependence rests squarely on Africa's political leaders and policy makers and not on any external intervention. We then propose a residual option for tackling the leadership challenge and for launching Africa on the path of sustainable food security in line with the target of SDG‐2. The study relied on qualitative descriptive analysis of both primary and secondary data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the debate between intellectualists and anti-intellectualists regarding the unity of knowledge, specifically whether knowing how and knowing that can be considered the same type of knowledge. Topics discussed include the arguments of Natalia Waights Hickman on the unity of knowledge through rules and principles; the role of rules and facts in understanding knowledge; and a critique of Waights Hickman's interpretation of Ryle's intellectualism.

This article draws upon a textual variant in Thomas Mann's novel Doktor Faustus, and proceeds to investigate the issue which it raises: the role of heresy in the novel, and the question of whether the heretical in art is more accessible or inaccessible than the orthodox. Heresy and its opposite, the orthodox or the 'pious', as Mann normally describes it, are categories of religious thought, used by Mann in a transferred sense to convey the spiritual and intellectual dilemma of the modern artist. Given that Adrian Leverkühn is a composer, and that the reader therefore needs to take Mann's description (through the narrator Zeitblom) of his music 'on trust', the thesis of this article is that an understanding of the sources within the Christian heretical tradition upon which Leverkühn draws for his compositions is necessary for the reader's understanding of the nature of his music and its relationship to the artistic tradition which it both acknowledges and rejects. The article also posits the decisive influence upon Doktor Faustus of the treatment of heresy in Dostoevsky's major novels. It concludes by considering a further associated textual detail with regard to the question of salvation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on proposing a new understanding of intellectual humility, defining it as freedom from prideful distraction by one's intellectual ego, termed the "no-distraction account." This account aims to encompass the value of humility in various contexts, including those of oppression and marginalization, by emphasizing clarity of thought and freedom from self-validation in intellectual pursuits.

Genette's Seuils considers the dramatic paratext as the odd one out, and, indeed, the early‐modern theatrical paratext has remained understudied. This article discusses the paratexts of the comedies of Giovanni Battista Calderari, a sixteenth‐century author quite neglected by scholars, whose works were published in Vicenza and Venice. By focusing on the paratexts of La Mora (The Moorish Woman, 1588), La schiava (The Slave Woman, 1589), and Armida (1600), the article stresses Calderari's attempts to clarify his poetic ideas and his endeavours to create a network of intellectuals and obtain their opinions about his work. These interlocutors belonged to the knights of Malta and the Vicenzan Accademia Olimpica, two circles to which Calderari himself belonged, but they also were authoritative Venetian intellectuals. His insertion of poems and letters that praise his person and work, reveals his attempt to promote himself and his writings. He tries to promote himself not only as a military man or a great Vicenzan poet, but as a scholar of theatre who is able to juggle poetic discourse and is worthy to be considered by intellectuals, though he ultimately seems to have failed to really assert himself on the Venetian cultural scene and the Vicenzan stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why and when do today's Far‐Right groups cooperate across national boundaries? This paper seeks to provide answers to these questions by examining a deviant rather than representative case: the transnational connections between right‐wing intellectuals in South Korea and Japan. Analysing the recent publication of a highly controversial and provocative book and the transnational politics around it, we emphasise the roles of right‐wing intellectuals and the processes by which divergent political interests converge in changing geopolitical and domestic political contexts. By situating Far Right activities in its broader context of shaping—colonial history, American hegemony and the confrontation with socialist regimes such as China and North Korea—this paper develops a contextual account of the transnational Far Right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Journals are the product of intellectual communities; a publication's health mirrors the field it represents. Current developments in the human sciences, especially the replication crisis and growing awareness of problems with cross‐cultural generalization, create opportunities for psychological anthropologists to speak to a broader audience within academia. However, to take advantage of these opportunities, we must write with this potential audience in mind, an academic public that does not share the same theoretical vocabulary, epistemological standards, or methodological principles. Academic publishing has been struggling with the burdens imposed by the pandemic and scandals around misuse of power brought to light in the last few years. At the same time, new models for performance management only increase the pressure falling on editorial staff. This editorial reflects on the necessity of solidarity, innovation, and community investment in a journal to maintain viability in the new publishing landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I focus on the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham to show how it contributed to gender formation by teaching boys not only Latin, but also what it meant to be a man of the monastery. I discuss how the professions the boys role‐played encouraged them to think of the monk as the most masculine option, and how verbal experimentation allowed their violent impulses to be redirected from physical towards intellectual outlets. In doing so, I reveal the rhetorical strategies used to construct collective gendered identities, which separated different types of men and the role of animals in this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with the role played by books and publishing houses in the representations and circulation of ideas relating to the Chilean Unidad Popular process (1970–1973). Due to its transnational nature, Siglo XXI stands out as a privileged object of analysis. This publishing house was founded by Orfila Reynal in Mexico in 1965, and opened a branch in Buenos Aires in 1971. Amidst political and cultural radicalisation, Siglo XXI Argentina factored in the local reception of ideas about the Chilean road to socialism, and its shaping into a global event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the socio‐spatial entanglement of West Indian anti‐colonial knowledge production in the mid‐20th century existing between London and the Caribbean. This is interpreted as a case of the paradoxical politics of academic knowledge production in that British imperial policies that were constraining knowledge production in the West Indies were also seen as facilitating anti‐colonial awareness and work in London by West Indian actors. Research demonstrating the importance of the metropole as a meeting place for global anti‐colonial actors is complemented by shifting the focus to the entangled space between London and the West Indies. This article comparatively analyses the academic politics of the British Colonial Office – a spatial dislocation of knowledge production away from the West Indies – and its perception and challenge by Caribbean intellectuals who were temporarily based in London. The analysis builds on contributions by C.L.R. James and S. Wynter and their reflections on the institutionalisation of research in the West Indies and their experiences in London. Overall, I emphasise a relational and symmetrising analysis of knowledge production in imperial contexts that accounts for the entanglement of imperial politics in the metropole and the colonies, and the perception and potential use of these political entanglements by actors in and from colonial contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his 2022 book, B I Gambling on development i , b Stefan Dercon compares country experiences, arguing that countries develop strongly when their leaders and elites reach a shared vision for their country's development, and bet on its success - though the outcome cannot be guaranteed. Dercon argues that in countries where the development bargain is present or emerging, aid can play a very important complementary role in providing technical support and advice to deepen and strengthen the development bargain. : A written symposium on the contribution of Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose by Stefan Dercon The fact is, for the vast majority of countries, the question of a grand bargain is less about a grand bargain I within a i country, it is more about a bargain with international partners. [Extracted from the article]

Matteo Bortolini, an Italian sociologist at the University of Padua, has written the definitive biography of the American sociologist Robert Neelly Bellah (1927-2013). (Bellah's review of archived records in 2004 did not change his judgment of the Harvard administration; Parsons, in contrast, had championed Bellah in a "forceful, uncompromising way" [pp. 317-318].) Bortolini quips that Bill Clinton, who awarded the National Humanities Medal to Bellah in 2000, was apparently "fonder of Robert Bellah than Bob was of the president's centrist policies" (p. 295). [Extracted from the article]

He demonstrated plenty of these features in his permanent critical conversations with many great philosophers from the past ([12]), from his present (Bernstein, [8]), and with his students, many of whom eventually became his colleagues (Bernstein, [9]). He thought that citizens should be active participants as they face unavoidable social and political conflicts, and Bernstein claimed that: "A fallibilistic orientation, [which] requires a genuine willingness to test one's ideas in public and to listen carefully to those who criticized them", should be open to the ideas of others (Bernstein, [1], p. 299). Dewey was Dick's intellectual hero because he cared about three key issues: first, the importance of experience - a subject he thought that Dewey shared with Gadamer (Bernstein, [2], p. 28). Richard Bernstein was an open-minded thinker who had a deep affinity with John Dewey's vision of experience and nature. [Extracted from the article]

In addition to playing the role of a publicly-engaged philosopher, Habermas has also written extensively on the relation of theory to practice. Author's Introduction Jürgen Habermas is the most important German philosopher and critical theorist of the postwar era. This guide accompanies the following article(s): Peter J. Verovsek, "Jürgen Habermas and the Public Intellectual in Modern Democratic Life", Philosophy Compass, 17(4), (2022) e12818. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12818. While Habermas is the most prominent continental public intellectual of the twentieth century, this book presents the more direct approach to philosophical participation in public affairs advocated by most analytic philosophers. [Extracted from the article]

This article analyzes the activities of three Soviet intellectuals–the Ukrainian artist Ivan Honchar, the Russian writer Vladimir Soloukhin, and the Gagauz poet Dmitri Kara Çoban–who launched independent projects to collect and preserve artifacts of pre‐Soviet peasant culture in the 1960s. Reacting against representations of their national culture in state museums that they considered inauthentic and incomplete, these three collectors were part of a broader movement of intellectuals in the post‐Stalin period who sought to return to the village as the original source of "authentic" national culture. State responses to these intellectual initiatives were determined not by clearly articulated policies made in Moscow, but through the "cultural politics of nationality"–the interaction of intellectuals, republican leaders and central authorities. Demonstrating the enduring impact of these three independent collecting projects on Soviet and post‐Soviet thought about the nation, this article argues that changing conceptions of the nation in the post‐Stalin period are best understood as the result of a nationalities process involving intellectuals, republican leaders and central authorities, rather than an explicitly defined nationalities policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This chapter presents the perspective of a provost on public intellectuals in higher education. It provides practical guidance through a series of questions faculty members might ask themselves about their role and approach to public intellectualism, including how to translate academic scholarship into a legible message for the general public and establishing discernment process for accepting an interview, speaking engagement, or writing assignments. It also describes effective practices that can shape a public scholarship agenda and considers the implications for academic scholars who choose to enter the realm of thought leadership and public life, and the implications and repercussions of navigating public discourse in the context of a fragmented American evangelicalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The academic literature on public intellectuals would argue that the days of scholars playing the role of public intellectuals are long behind us, and that the role is in decline. This chapter examines the extent to which that may or may not be the case. It defines what it means to be a public intellectual, catalogues the literature related to the thesis that public intellectuals are in decline, discusses data about the prevalence of faculty who exhibit behaviors consistent with public intellectualism and how this varies by institutional type, and then discusses whether public intellectuals are a dying breed across all of American higher education, or just in a few institutional contexts, and then determines possible reasons for the decline in public intellectualism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dominant stories about public intellectualism tend to erase academics of racially minoritized and marginalized backgrounds as well as academics appointed outside of research universities. This chapter makes sense of these erasures and considers their associated costs by applying the lenses of critical race theory (CRT) and epistemic injustice. Ultimately, this chapter attempts to broaden the academy's view about public intellectualism, making visible the work that so many have been doing for so long which includes fierce acts of advocacy and community uplift. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This chapter explores whether academic freedom extends to the work of academic public intellectuals through a historical analysis of landmark cases and episodes. It leads to the sobering conclusion that "professors proceed at their own risk if and when they take on the role of a public intellectual," noting that the presence of academic freedom as a binding policy in academic organizations or professional associations is marginal and faculty protections for statements in the media are arbitrary and uncertain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How should we account for and assess the work of the public intellectual? This chapter unpacks approaches to the assessment of the public intellectual to broadly consider the roles and functions of the academic public intellectual, examine how their roles fit within Boyer's domains of scholarship and how institutional structures both support and impinge upon intellectual activities. It then discusses how the assessment of public intellectuals can be more appropriately and objectively conducted using alternative metrics and clearer expectations for evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this transitory age for public intellectuals, faculty must wisely negotiate the differences between public and private communication. The work of public intellectuals in colleges and universities raises questions about the methods used to assess the impact this work and the modes of communication with the lay public. This chapter discusses the pervasive nature of social media in the lives of public intellectuals and to what end the platforms they utilize can be leveraged in positive ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper formulates a new perspective on Vissarion Belinskii's seminal role as the leading figure in early Russian realism–while attempting to account for the unique, culturally‐specific evolution of realism in Russia, particularly its fundamental interconnection with the rise of what we now call "the intelligentsia." Within this context, Belinskii's distinct mode of realism–epitomized in his call for "sociality or death"–can be termed "phenomenological," because it derived so much from the narrative logic of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, as a continuous striving for self‐realization. In this sense, Belinskii's influence hinged on his constructed, phenomenological metanarrative of Russian literary history: a philosophical narrative that established a logical evolution within Russian literature and explained the emergence of realism as a rational necessity. The conceptual foundations of Belinskii's metanarrative can be traced back to his period of intense immersion in Hegel's philosophy as a member of the Stankevich circle, when he and the others looked to Hegel's philosophy as a practical guide to personal self‐realization. Ultimately, however, Belinskii transposed this narrative of self‐realization onto the logic of Russian literary history. Accordingly, the realism of the Natural School marked the culminating moment when Russian literature finally attained self‐realization, legitimacy, cultural autonomy. The entire process, moreover, was contingent on the emergence of a certain kind of unified, self‐conscious reading public–which became the basis for what we now know as the intelligentsia. Thus, Belinskii's realist agenda was ultimately focused on fostering the development of this "imagined community," which entailed establishing a stable and autonomous niche for intelligentsia discourse within the competitive field of literary production, as well as shaping the distinct socio‐historical sense of self that engendered the intelligentsia's defining propensity for conscientious social action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary scholars working in vice epistemology attribute a motivational approach to the Aristotelian understanding of intellectual vice. My aim in this article is to show that this is not an accurate interpretation of the Aristotelian position. Toward this end, I discuss Aristotle's account of the intellectual virtues of (a) intelligence and (b) comprehension as well as their corresponding vices. In opposition to the claims of several contemporary vice epistemologists, I show that Aristotle had an obstructivist view of vice that focused on their consequences. I argue that this realization can be of significant import to contemporary vice epistemology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his own era, Arthur Schopenhauer was criticized for his conspicuous lack of patriotism. The critics were correct in the sense that Schopenhauer was a lifelong anti‐nationalist in a period of rising cultural and political nationalism. This article reconstructs Schopenhauer's critique of nationalism. First, it articulates his double ethical and intellectual case against the idea of the nation as a community supposed to give shape to the allegiances and obligations of its members. Second, it turns to his critique of teleological national history, according to which nations are collective agents with a single fate. Third, it reviews his caustic criticism of the increased importance of the vernacular in scholarly communication and the early Germanist attempt to establish an exclusively German literary canon; to Schopenhauer, nationhood was not even a useful category of cultural appreciation. Through this reconstruction, Schopenhauer emerges as a fierce anti‐nationalist who systematically questioned the importance of the nation as a supposedly cohesive community of solidarity and mutual care, a unified collective political and historical subject, or even a meaningful cultural or literary phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This book review discusses Ryan Cropp's biography of Donald Horne, titled "Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country." The biography explores the different periods of Horne's life, from his role as a Cold War warrior to his emergence as Australia's leading republican in the 1970s. Cropp seeks to challenge the artificial periodizations of Australian history and presents Horne as a restless figure in a shifting landscape. The biography delves into Horne's intellectual journey, his influences, and his engagement with various political groups. It also examines Horne's beliefs and his increasing insider status as he navigated different social circles. Overall, the biography provides a comprehensive account of Horne's life and contributions to Australian debate. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports special educational needs and disability (SEND) community of scholars to look at the overall political landscape. Topic discussed includes challenges of SEND such as to raise outcomes, to provide a positive experience in navigating the system, and to provide a system offering better value for money.

Aldous Huxley’s personal account of his experience taking mescaline in "The Doors of Perception" (1954) has influenced popular understandings of the effects of psychedelic drugs and encouraged many personal experiences with these drugs. Huxley encouraged the psychiatrist Humphry Osmond to coin the term ‘psychedelic’. He knew many of the leading figures in early psychedelic research and advocated for the use of psychedelics to spiritually enlighten the intellectual elite. We provide background on who Huxley was, how his mescaline experience came about and the key messages of his essay. We also discuss the impact of Huxley’s essay and advocacy on early psychedelic research.

The Farm Hall Transcripts appeared to offer a unique opportunity for a study in the history and sociology of science. My request for access to the transcripts was initially denied, but later was allowed thanks to the intervention of British intellectuals. The recorded opinions of the interned German scientists indicate that initially they had attempted to produce a nuclear weapon, but later abandoned it. The record also traces their development of a view of history, by which the relative morality of the German scientists' work could be judged, versus that of the Allies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an overview of Jürgen Habermas's writings as a public intellectual and relates this work to recent debates about the proper relationship of theory to practice. In addition to being one of the most influential continental philosophers of the postwar era, Habermas is also the leading public intellectual of the Federal Republic of Germany and increasingly of the European Union as well. Unfortunately, his political writings have not received the attention they deserve. As a result, he is often misconstrued as an ideal theorist who is both ignorant of and apathetic toward 'real' politics. By showing how his philosophy relates to his political engagement, I present Habermas as a model for how the philosopher can apply theoretical insights to political developments in an indirect, mediated manner that focuses on debates within the democratic public sphere. This approach has distinct advantages when compared to active participation in the policymaking process and the direct application of philosophy to political practice, both of which threaten the principle of democratic equality in the public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the sacred and the level of sacrifice in the works of French intellectual Georges Bataille. Topics discussed include a two-fold effect of the ouroboric nature of discursive life, the first article of Bataille for the literary review "Acéphale," and his search for the sacred outside of the traditional forms of religion.

The article discusses the engagement of French intellectual Georges Bataille with Paleolithic art and religion. Topics include challenges posed by the Paleolithic detour, the position of Bataille that the study of prehistory must rely on archaeological evidence in the same way that it had for over a century, and reason for the prehistoric detour.

The question of misogyny has been well documented in the existing literature on gender and politics, but studies have tended to focus on men's attitudes and discourses toward women and LGBTQI+ issues. In this article, a less common perspective is adopted: that of scrutinising the discourse of what can be labelled anti‐feminist conservative women intellectuals. The article examines what the author calls the UK #MeToo series and how female conservative intellectuals have reacted to it, rejected feminism and, in doing so, women's emancipation more generally. First, three reactionary anti‐feminist discourses around arguments about victimhood, conflation and fear are identified, followed by a discussion of how these anti‐feminist narratives fit into Albert Hirschman's pioneering work on the rhetoric of reaction, but also how they can enrich it. In relation to this, the article considers two reversal or retaliation strategies used by anti‐feminists, consisting first in presenting men as victims and second, in claiming to ally with women against feminism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neil McLaughlin's I Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology i is a byproduct of Michael Burawoy's impassioned 2004 presidential address to the American Sociological Association regarding the need for "public sociology." While Marcuse may have gotten the better of Fromm in the pages of I Dissent i , it was Fromm's success as a public sociologist that may have prompted him to write faster and more prophetically, to think more superficially, and to become more estranged from the networks of "marginal" scholars that had helped inspire his work in the 1940s and 1950s. In addition to establishing Fromm as a major public intellectual in mid-century sociology, I Escape from Freedom i also helps McLaughlin set the stage for the theoretical contours of Fromm's entire body of work. [Extracted from the article]

May had become a public intellectual (p. 217), and throughout the turmoil of the 1960s, May's sense of having a "heroic calling remained intact" (p. 240). Rollo May (1909-1994) fused together midwestern liberal Protestantism, psychoanalysis, existential philosophy, and Paul Tillich's theology, in a synthetic and accessible writing style. In the mid-1930s, May read Otto Rank, "whom he found more compelling than either Freud or Adler, as Rank emphasized, "a therapy that sought to liberate personal spiritual and creative potentialities" (p. 81). [Extracted from the article]

Phenomenologists draw on descriptions of experience to uncover the conditions that enable experience. However, a second‐order or distanced view of experience can distort it. In his analysis of the ready‐to‐hand, Heidegger utilizes experiences of breakdown to avoid this problem, but he does not provide a detailed account of why this methodology is effective. I use Heidegger's analysis of interpretation to reconstruct a detailed account of the breakdown methodology and show why it avoids the problem of "observation distortion." Although Heidegger is only explicit about his use of this methodology in the analysis of the ready‐to‐hand, I show that analyses of breakdown experiences are implicit throughout Being and Time and have an important role in two key moments of the analysis of Dasein: Being‐with (publicness) and Dasein's structural whole (care). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Márkus would have certainly also discussed the texts of the later Foucault had these works been available to him, so we are called upon to deduce what Márkus might have made of developments in Foucault's mature thought. However, whatever critical insights follow from Foucault's tenacious pursuit of unacknowledged relations of power, Márkus finds crucial historical failures in the historicising intentions undermining the strengths of Foucault's theory of power. FOUCAULT: THE COMPROMISED HISTORICIST Márkus deeply appreciated Michel Foucault's wide-ranging impact on contemporary philosophy and the critical theory tradition. THE LATE FOUCAULT: RECONSTRUCTING MÁRKUS'S RESPONSE We only have an unfinished, unpublished and undated fragment of Márkus's work to use in reconstructing his critical appreciation of Foucault. [Extracted from the article]

The article examines that Rachana Kamtekar has written a challenging reappraisal of the foundations of Plato's moral psychology. Topics include considered that it aims to displace psychological eudaimonism with the claim that "human beings have a natural desire for our own good" as the foundation of Plato's moral psychology.

The article reports that Rachana Kamtekar challenges a narrative about Plato's moral psychology that is well entrenched among English-speaking interpreters of Plato and has been for much of the last half century. Topics include considered that psychological eudaimonism is the doctrinal core of the "Socratic Intellectualism" to be found.

This article analyses the revision of the Argentine intellectual tradition demonstrated in the magazine Punto de vista throughout its first nineteen issues, published during the last Argentine dictatorship (1976–1983). From Sarmiento and the generation of 1837 to Borges and the Sur generation, the reassessment of Argentine intellectuals' legacies set out by editors of Punto de vista was an explicit attempt to insert the magazine into a recognised intellectual lineage. At the same time, it responded to a search for identity prompted by the critical and repressive context in which the magazine was first published. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the intellectual contributions of Professor W. M. ('Max') Corden to Economics. We focus on three main fields: trade theory and practice, especially his pioneering work on the theory of effective protection; open economy macroeconomics, including exchange rate policy, the international monetary system, Dutch Disease and economic crises; and Australian economic policy. We emphasise Max's motivation for working on these topics, as he sought to understand real‐world economic issues and challenges and to employ economic theory and expositional clarity in search of policy reform. We also draw attention to his personal life history, and how it has shaped his thinking on major economic and political questions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine the modes of intervention of global public intellectuals at times of crisis. In critical situations, public intellectuals take positions on matters that affect the societies they inhabit and, eventually, all humanity. To this end, they take advantage of the opportunities afforded by new communications technologies, establishing an important distinction between the "analog" intellectual (who relies on the slow time of books, opinion columns, and bookstores) and the "digital" intellectual who uses modern information and communications technologies. To study the activities of global public intellectuals and their political influence, we propose to leave aside the notion of "transnational intellectual field" in favor of an understanding of a transnational intellectual stage peopled by a certain type of intellectual agent whose symbolic and cultural production is disseminated through a digital global public circuit. To illustrate the functioning of a circuit of this type, we take the example of the Project Syndicate platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vaccinations remain a critical, albeit surprisingly controversial, health behavior, especially with the promise of widely available COVID‐19 vaccine. Intellectual humility, a virtue characterized by nonjudgmental recognition of one's own intellectual fallibility, may counter rigidity associated with anti‐vaccination attitudes and help promote vaccine‐related behaviors. This study investigated whether intellectual humility is related to anti‐vaccination attitudes and intentions to vaccinate against COVID‐19, and whether intellectual humility can predict unique variance in these outcomes beyond participant demographic and personal factors. Participants (N = 351, 57.23% male, mean age = 37.41 years, SD = 11.51) completed a multidimensional measure for intellectual humility, the anti‐vaccination attitudes (VAX) scale, and a two‐item COVID‐19 vaccination intention scale. Bivariate correlations demonstrated that intellectual humility was negatively related with anti‐vaccination attitudes overall, r(349) = −.46, p <.001, and positively related to intentions to vaccinate against COVID‐19, r(349) =.20, p <.001. Hierarchical multiple regression revealed that intellectual humility predicted all four types anti‐vaccination attitudes, overall anti‐vaccination attitudes, and COVID‐19 vaccination intentions above and beyond demographic and personal factors (i.e., sex, race/ethnicity, age, education, socioeconomic status, and political orientation), ΔR2 between.08 and.18, ps <.001. These results bolster intellectual humility as a malleable psychological factor to consider in efforts to combat anti‐vaccination attitudes and promote COVID‐19 vaccination uptake. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A work of digital scholarship, this essay presents the discovery of archival data obtained from unpublished correspondence written by American novelist Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973). Using digital tools, our project rendered and analyzed a keyword database in order to identify and measure the keyword "China" in relation to other value‐laden collocations—such as country, friend, and people—which Buck promulgated widely in her role as public intellectual and China expert for her time. Buck was never able to return to China in person. Even so, the globalized values attributed to "China" in her letters remained meaningful touchstones for her philanthropy, activism, and social commentary in the United States in her lifetime, personally and professionally, as she urged greater American recognition of China's emergence prior to and during the Second World War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Hill intellectuals were part of Rodney's description of "guerrilla intellectuals", the term that was used to capture politicization of knowledge within an empire (see Daley & Murrey, 2022: 159). Daley and Murrey offer a fresh and unconventional way of reflecting on decolonization of knowledge production. From where I sit - fondly called the Hill (the University of Dar es Salaam's main campus) - the reading of Patricia Daley and Amber Murrey's special lecture paper has been thought provoking. [Extracted from the article]

This article sociologically explains the initial phase of Slavoj Žižek's emergence as global public intellectual. Drawing on positioning theory, the article contributes to previous works on Žižek's performativity by focusing on his contextuality. It examines how his intellectual interventions depended on the context in which they were performed, and on the relations to other intellectuals positioned in that context. The article argues that (1) Žižek's first attempt to intervene internationally was in France; (2) this attempt was a failure; and (3) his second attempt in England was a success. It also demonstrates that vouching is paramount to intellectual positioning: while Jacques-Alain Miller positioned Žižek along practico-clinical lines in the French context, Ernesto Laclau positioned Žižek along politico-philosophical lines in the English context. Consequently, the latter positioning facilitated a public resonance that would lead to Žižek's global success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"To understand Strauß, one must love him." Massey understood Strauß's insistence that the divine attributes of Christ could not be fixed on the historical Jesus but belonged to the whole human race to be a democratic statement. Beiser's Strauß rather sets out to explore the contradictions - between faith and reason, historical form and speculative content - bequeathed to him by German Protestant theology. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on Phil Thomas has had an enduring influence on the socio-legal project in the Great Britain. Topic include this has been achieved by the establishment of a leading journal in the field, which for half a century has been responsible for publishing challenging articles and constantly enriching and disrupting accounts of its perimeters.

This essay investigates the origins and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the new field known as Wissensgeschichte from the perspective of an American intellectual historian. It argues that while some historians of science may be ready to embrace a new identity as historians of knowledge, this terminology remains baggy and invites facile applications of Foucauldian theory. The essay concludes with the hope that the history of knowledge approach may instead open up new avenues for conversation and collaboration between historians of science and garden variety historians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new field of the history of knowledge is often presented as a mere expansion of the history of science. We argue that it has a greater ambition. The re‐definition of the historiographical domain of the history of knowledge urges us to ask new questions about the boundaries, hierarchies, and mutual constitution of different types of knowledge as well as the role and assessment of failure and ignorance in making knowledge. These issues have pertinence in the current climate where expertise is increasingly questioned and authority seems to lose its ground. Illustrated with examples from recent historiography of the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, we indicate some fruitful new avenues for research in the history of knowledge. Taken together, we hope that they will show that the history of knowledge could build the expertise required by the challenges of twenty‐first century knowledge societies, just like the history of science, throughout its development as a discipline in the twentieth century, responded to the demands posed by science and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]