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...

Intellectuals, by Paul Johnson (Harper & Row, 385 pp., $22.50) INTELLECTUALS IS a book for people for whom "intellectuals" is already a dirty word. Paul Johnson offers case studies of 12 outstanding men of the mind who in private life were pretty...

ON SUNDAY, MARCH 9, the public is invited to a conference on "The Intellectual in American Culture" at Harvard University. Ideas spoke with organizers Michael Kimmage and Yael Schacher, both graduate students in Harvard's History of American Civilization program. IDEAS: According to some...

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...