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There is an intellectual, if not for all times, then at least for every time. In the late 1940s, the French author Jean Paul Sartre emerged as the moral conscience of his age, speaking out about the social and political situation not only in France, but in the world at large. However, what is often forgotten is that Sartre related himself to the current issues of the times: the German occupation in the 1940s and the liberation war in Algeria in the 1950s.
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Chomsky, N. (1967) ‘A Special Supplement: The Responsibility of Intellectuals’, New York Review of Books 8(3).
Said, E. (1994) Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures (London: Vintage).
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Elam, I. (2014). What Is an Intellectual, Anyway?. In: Askanius, T., Østergaard, L.S. (eds) Reclaiming the Public Sphere. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398758_6
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