Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Introduction / Peter Thijssen, Walter Weyns and Christiane Timmerman -- History and contemporary developments -- The intellectual in the public sphere : projections, contradictions, and dilemmas since the enlightenment / Harold Mah -- The rise of the embedded intellectual : new forms of public engagement and critique / Patrick Baert & Alan Shipman -- From public to civic intellectuals : political agency and emerging media landscapes / Peter Dahlgren -- Internet and the public intellectual -- Intellectuals, the public sphere and dissemination strategies / France Aubin -- How salonfähig are online political forums? : the curious case of politics.be / Peter Thijssen -- The creation of new public places : a critique of Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel / Frank Maet -- Women and the public sphere -- Immigrant intellectual : the case of Ayaan Hirsi Ali / Odile Heynders -- Building solidarity through relationships : the politics of feminism as an intellectual project in Turkey / Nazan Haydari -- Subcultures in the public sphere -- Public intellectuals and micro-public spheres : a British illustration / Richard McCallum -- Public intellectuals and public spheres : who is left to speak to the public? : Yusuf al-Qaradawi : shaper of an agonistic discourse / Zvi Bar'el -- Reputation among the Hungarian intellectual elite / Luca Kristóf -- Index.

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