Intellectual history in a global world II: a response to Ulrich Schneider' essay

Abstract

Abstract What I would like to do over the next several pages is respond in something of a shorthand fashion to Ulrich Schneider's observations in Intellectual News 14 on ‘intellectual history in a global world’. To my mind, this is an important topic. In a world dominated like never before by hypercommodified mass culture, ‘the intellectual’ seems to have taken a cultural scat even further back than usual—and this includes within ‘academic culture’—where results rather than ‘ideas’ are often given a higher value. I would suggest that this has something to do with the rapid-paced, futureoriented nature of the contemporary world.