Speaking Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-86940-379-9
Verlag: Auckland University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Eggheads.the chattering classes.the ivory tower.This is a book about a contentious subject, intellectual life in today's New Zealand. It is organised around the interviews with leading intellectuals such as Jane Kelsey, Brian Easton, Marilyn Waring, Lloyd Geering, Nicky Hager and the late Michael King and is introduced by four essays by Roger Horrocks, Andrew Sharp, Stephen Turner and Laurence Simmons. However much lofty ideas and gritty thinking are the subject of public scorn, these thinkers, writers and teachers have a huge impact on the sort of country we live in, the way we treat each other and how we plan for the future.In their commitment to understanding and improving the social world they have faced hostility, incomprehension and rejection but their lives are rich, complex and dramatic as this book shows. It may annoy, excite, inspire and anger but will also open up a debate and remind readers how little these thinkers are recognised and how important they are. It is beautifully illustrated by John Reynolds.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simmons, Laurence

Horrocks, Roger

Sharp, Andrew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Why I am not a Public Intellectual (Laurence Simmons); Part One Essays: On Being A Public Intellectual; 1. A Short History of 'the New Zealand Intellectual' by Roger Horrocks; 2. Bruce Jesson (1944-99): Exemplary Intellectual by Andrew Sharp; 3. The Public Intellectual is a Dog by Stephen Turner; Part Two Interviews: Public Intellectuals Speak Out; 4. Brian Easton; 5. Lloyd Geering; 6. Jane Kelsey; 7. Marilyn Waring; 8. Michael King; 9. James Belich; 10. Ian Wedde; 11. Ranginui Walker; 12. Sandra Coney; 13. Nicky Hager; 14. Roundtable Discussions

Über Autor(innen)

LAURENCE SIMMONS is an associate professor in Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland. He has published in the fields of post-structuralist theory, psychoanalytical theory, New Zealand film and television and post-war Italian cinema. His most recent books are The Image Always has the Last Word: On Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Photography (2002) and Freud's Italian Journey (2006).