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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Gipper
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
06.059.0100
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
3,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Contents:
The power of intellectuals has long been considered a specific feature of public life in France. To this day, the French media landscape is characterized by a particularly high presence of writers and philosophers, who accordingly also carry a special weight in opinion-forming processes. The roots of this phenomenon go back a long way. While in Germany the term intellectual was mostly used as an insult until well into the 20th century, in France, since at least the late 19th century, intellectuals have formed a particularly influential social group with a pronounced sense of self-awareness and power.
The lecture will first attempt to trace the emergence of the social type of the intellectual historically back to its roots, and then to follow its influence through the 19th and 20th centuries using selected examples. This will reveal an important feature of public life in France, and also trace something of a history of the relationship between culture and politics.
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