Reflections on Crisis: The role of the public intellectual - by Mary P. Corcoran, Kevin Lalor

 

Book Description

In the wake of its boom and bust, Ireland has more than ever before needed a forum for reflection. Unlike the British, the French, and the Germans, the Irish don't have a tradition of public intellectuals: people who lead informed critical debate and generate discussion. This short collection of essays by leading Irish academics reflect on the ways in which critical thinking, imagination, and ideas can work to understand crisis. It discusses such questions as: How is a nation then to make sense of global economic crisis? Are the views of economists, novelists, playwrights, sociologists, historians, political scientists, and civil servants dismissed and ignored? Are the Irish anti-intellectual? ** From the contributors: "It's not just the financial market that is in freefall. The language market is in freefall. People are losing the ability to speak." (Tom Garvin) "What this crisis has done is that it has exposed the nature of power in Irish society, who has it and who hasn't it." (Liam O'Dowd) "The job of public intellectuals is to make the powers that be uneasy in their beds." (Declan Kiberd)

Product Details

Publisher : Royal Irish Academy; First Edition (August 2, 2012)

Language: : English

Paperback : 118 pages

ISBN-10 : 1908996064

ISBN-13 : 978-1908996060

Item Weight : 6 ounces

Dimensions : 5 x 0.4 x 7.75 inches

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Author(s)

Biography

Mary P. Corcoran is a Professor of Sociology at Maynooth University. Her research interests are urban transformation and change, suburbanisation, migration, civic and public cultures. She is joint editor of Reflections on Crisis. The role of the public intellectual (2012).

Kevin Lalor is head of the School of Languages, Law & Social Sciences at Dublin Institute of Technology. His current research interests include experiences of adolescence; youth crime and victimisation; child sexual abuse prevalence; the role of child sexual abuse in HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa; comparative perspectives on crime victimization. He is joint editor of Reflections on Crisis. The role of the public intellectual (2012).

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