理查德·波斯纳:《公共知识分子》
理查德·波斯纳:《公共知识分子》,哈佛大学出版社,2001年。 Richard A. Posner, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, Harvard University Press, 2002. 448 pages. In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual–that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment–Richard Posner charts the decline of a venerable institution that included worthies from Socrates to John Dewey. With the rapid growth of the media in recent years, highly visible forums for discussion have multiplied, while greater academic specialization has yielded a growing number of narrowly trained scholars. Posner tracks these two trends to their inevitable intersection: a proliferation…