Abstract
I will start with a confession that should probably immediately bar me from contributing to a discussion about the role of the intellectual in the public sphere: I do not know what an intellectual is. I will take it a step further. Despite being invited to give this address because I am considered to be an intellectual, I do not really care what the word means.
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Jensen, C. (2014). What I Think about When I Think about Being an Intellectual. 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_7
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