Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1999

Volume

61

Issue

3

Publication Title

College English

First Page

328

Last Page

336

Abstract

While I support the good intentions of those who have recently proposed definitions of the public intellectual, I find these definitions problematic in their narrow delineation of the word "public"- they focus on a "public" consisting of middle and upper class policy makers, administrators, and professionals, and, in doing so, omit an important site for uniting knowledge-making and political action: the local community.

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