Intellectuals in Politics From the Dreyfus Affair to Salman Rushdie -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 The century of the intellectual: from the Dreyfus Affair to Salman Rushdie -- Part I Insiders and outsiders -- 2 The intellectual as social critic: Antonio Gramsci and Michael Walzer -- 3 Between autonomy and responsibility: Max Weber on scholars,academics and intellectuals -- 4 Of treason, blindness and silence: dilemmas of the intellectual in modern France -- Part II Priestly interventions -- 5 Algeria and the dual image of the intellectual -- 6 Between the word and the land: intellectuals and the State in Israel -- 7 A product of history, not a cause? Yeats, the 'Auden generation',and the politics of poetry, 1891-1939 -- Part III Slavonic jesters -- 8 Revolutionaries and dissidents: the role of the Russian intellectual in the downfall of Tsarism and Communism -- 9 Politics and the Polish intellectuals, 1945-89 -- 10 Intellectuals and socialism: making and breaking the proletariat -- Part IV American agnostics -- 11 Freedom, commitment and Marxism: the predicament of independent intellectuals in the United States, 1910-41 -- 12 The tragic predicament: post-war American intellectuals,acceptance and mass culture -- 13 Are intellectuals a dying species? War and the Ivory Tower in the postmodern age -- Epilogue -- 14 What truth? For whom and where? -- Index.