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Article Excerpt
David Carter ed, The Ideas Market, Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 2004, pp 298 pages, pb $32.95, ISBN 0522851126.
In this anthology, which examines Australian public intellectual life, University of Queensland media theorist Alan McKee undertakes the tedious but necessary task of assessing a range of definitions of the 'public intellectual'. The one that sticks: 'somebody who thinks in public about issues of common interest'. McKee, like many writers in this anthology, wants to see the definition, or rather designation of 'public intellectual' expanded. His beef is the 'relentless conflation of "left-wing" with "public intellectual"'. He urges left-wing intellectuals to accept that right-wing intellectuals and workers in popular culture can also be intelligent, and produce important intellectual work. As a result, maybe left-wing intellectuals 'would not be quite so distasteful to the ordinary Australian public'. (Other writers in The Ideas...
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