Intellectuals and the People

by Angie Sandhu

Angie Sandhu examines the relation between intellectuals and society through political theory and a consideration of contemporary debates in both Britain and the US. She sets out a new argument that calls for intellectuals to address their own elite locations in society by challenging notions of intellectual difference and autonomy.

251 pages, Hardcover

First published October 22, 2007

Reviews

[Sadan · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book could have been written in 100 pages but the author includes so many long citations and repeated arguments that you lose the train of thought in the middle of the sentence! (and this gives her book a loose and incoherent structure since she jumps from one subject to the other without preparing the mind of the miserable reader). For almost 212 pages, Sandhu refutes and challenges the ideas that are proposed by almost ALL intellectuals (I wish this were an overstatement), but she refuses to provide us with solutions for the problems that she addresses. The book is informative in many regards but the lack of a satisfactory conclusion at the end of the book leaves the reader at a loss. Sandhu's argument is cut short abruptly (as if she was in a hurry) and she wraps up the book in a few sentences.