A strict definition of intellectuals would be that they are persons whose role is to deal with the advancement and propagation of knowledge, and with the articulation of the values of their particular society. In that sense all societies have their...

In most cultures literacy and literary work have been principally the domain of men. Women have frequently been excluded from formal education or denied respect as authors. This aspect of gender relations has had important consequences for ideas about...

1. A member of a social stratum to which society has ascribed the dominant role of providing it with the solutions to its problems, explications of its dominant world-view, ideology, etc. 2. One who is employed in an occupation usually considered to be...

INTELLECTUALS are persons who produce or intensively study intellectual works. Intellectual works are coherent complexes of symbolic configurations that deal with the serious or ultimately significant features of the cosmos, the earth, and human...

An intellectual is one who tries to use his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate, or ask and answer questions about a wide variety of different ideas. There are, broadly, three modern definitions at work in discussions about...

One by one, several French writers and intellectuals are making the startling confessions. After decades as committed leftists, they are defecting to the right _ many saying they've lost faith in Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal.With just 10 weeks to go until the election's first...

In the coming days, the White House has an excellent opportunity to deliver an unambiguous message to our global trading partners: Intellectual property rights must be taken seriously all the time -- not just some of the time and not just for a select few.This...

1. Television has greatly narrowed the freedom of the intellectual to do his job and "disturb the public peace." 100 years ago, the French intellectual Julien Benda could stand up against the establishment for Alfred Dreyfus "because he was innocent... in the name of universal...

He is also intellectually corrupt. When he says that America's biggest job is to reach "hearts and minds" across the Arab world and says that this is to be achieved by imposing democracy in Iraq, he has learned nothing from a bloody and horrifying experiment...