Thursday, September 04, 2008

a favor

Who are your favorite liberal intellectual heroes? I'm thinking of folks like Jane Addams & Martin Luther King.

Gandhi.

You know: Elitists.

Please comment if you would. Thanks much.
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2 comments:

  1. mrtn05 September, 2008 04:06

    Gandhi is definitely up there. Others (in no particular order):

    I'm having a thing lately for intellectual activists like George Monbiot, Naomi Klein, Cory Doctorow, Paul Krugman.

    Others: George Orwell, Richard Rorty, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Jürgen Habermas (even though I disagree on some very basic issues with him), Thorstein Veblen (a Norwegian!), Georg Johannesen (also Norwegian, but not translated, unfortunately), Antonio Gramsci, etc. etc.

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  2. suttonhoo05 September, 2008 11:59

    thanks much, mrtn. compiling lists rec'd via twitter and email now.

    stay tuned. it won't be earth shattering, but hopefully it'll be interesting.

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