Toward a Sociology of Public Intellectual Action: The Challenge of the Molecular Intellectuals

Authors

  • Francesco Antonelli

Keywords:

intellectuals, agency, networking society, molecularization

Abstract

The present essay aims to give both a contribution to rethinking sociology of intellectuals and to the study of transition from the hierarchical order of modernity idea of Society to a social pattern based on persons and subjects In particular we will try to paint a sketch of the transformations of the intellectual function Exerted by big bureaucratic machines today the intellectual action partially detaches itself from the intellectual function carried out by big bureaucratic machines of the modern era New typologies of intellectuals were born as well as a new deeply ambivalent public space The Internet and networked individualism are the main carriers of these transformations

How to Cite

Francesco Antonelli. (2013). Toward a Sociology of Public Intellectual Action: The Challenge of the Molecular Intellectuals. Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 13(C6), 21–28. Retrieved from https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/808

Toward a Sociology of Public Intellectual Action: The Challenge of the Molecular Intellectuals

Published

2013-07-15