Edward<\/p>\nRoyce’s<\/a> "The Practice of the Public Intellectual" (1999). In passing,<\/p>\n
Royce makes a point that I consider very important. He writes: "public intellectuals<\/p>\n
can work with<\/i> those subject to power as well as against <\/i>those who<\/p>\n
exercise power." Working with <\/i>ordinary people (or with especially<\/p>\n
oppressed people) is an entirely different form of engagement from "speaking<\/p>\n
truth to power." It requires more listening, more quiet work within institutions<\/p>\n
and communities, more development of personal relationships and trust, more building<\/p>\n
on local assets—and less dramatic rhetoric. Working against the powerful<\/p>\n
is an important role for intellectuals to play. But working "with <\/i>those<\/p>\n
subject to power" seems equally valuable (and interesting).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m reading all the back issues of the Higher Education Exchange, in order to write a mini-report for the editors about their future strategy for the journal. One generally excellent article is Edward Royce’s "The Practice of the Public Intellectual" (1999). In passing, Royce makes a point that I consider very important. He writes: "public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revitalizing-the-left"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}