Privileged Nomads
On the Strangeness of Intellectuals and the Intellectuality of Strangers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2354151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dick Pels (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-86 |
| Publication date | 1999-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/026327699016001005 |
| OpenAlex | W2047738687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 56 |
This article explores some aspects of the long-standing metaphoric conjunction between the images of the intellectual and that of the stranger in the history of social thought (cf. Simmel's portrayal of the stranger as intellectual and Mannheim's picture of the freischwebende Intelligenz as collectively estranged). Recently, this conjunction has re-emerged in the self-complimentary image of the 'exilic' or 'nomadic' intellectual, who is torn between identities and transgresses cultural and linguistic traditions (Foucault, Deleuze, Saïd, Braidotti). The article offers a critical appraisal of the intellectualist presumption lurking behind such self-identifications, and raises the issue of intellectual spokespersonship in the novel conditions of a postmodern 'society of strangers
Aesthetics · Conjunction (astronomy · Epistemology · Intellectual history · Political science · Postmodernism · Presumption · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy
The fetishisation and universalisation of the stranger
Intercultural Hermeneutics and the Cross-cultural Subject
Integration and Mobility of Eastern European Migrants in Scotland
Living between borderlands
Spectres of critique
‘The Other of the Other’
Thinking in a 'worldly' way
The movers of the text
The Politics of Home
Towards a Discursive Analytics of Movement
Mobile locations
We All Carry Inside Us Many Identities, a Multitude of These Selves of Ours”
Iron(ic) Ladies
A community of differences
Living on the Move
Global Abode
Have sex will travel
Joining the Club? Academia and Working-class Femininities Correspondence
Culture counts more than money
Soldiers of Science—Agents of Culture
Deleuze in the postcolonial
A critique of new materialism
On the Social Construction of Hellenism Cold War Narratives of Modernity, Development and Democracy for Greece
The Catch 22 syndrome of social scientists in the semiperiphery
A World-Wise Case of Dutchness
Outside in
Braving Homelessness on the Ethnographic Street with Irene Glasser and Rae Bridgman
Israel and the Exile of Intellectual Caliber
Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Glocalization
The Sociology of Intellectuals
The Uses of the Stranger
French Sociology
The black Atlantic
‘The Enigma of Arrival’
Black Women, Writing and Identity
Migrancy, Culture, Identity
Representations of the Intellectual
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
Black Feminist Thought
Feminism/Postmodernism
Resident Alien
The Enigma of Arrival
The Concept of the Political
Borderlands/La Frontera
The Self-Assertion of the German University
Framing the Sign
Ideology and Utopia
Langage et pouvoir symbolique
Sightseers
Cultural Studies
Wandering audiences, nomadic critics
Reception study
Intimations of Postmodernity
At Henry Parkes motel
Expatriation
Black Women, Writing and Identity
The tourist
The proletarian as stranger
Colonial desire
Oswald Spengler en Der Untergang des Abendlandes. Cultuurpessimist en politiek activist [Oswald Spengler and The Decline of the West
The ‘new’ Nietzsche
The Modern Stranger
The Modern Stranger
Strangers
European Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy
Colonial Desire
We Have Never Been Modern
The Sociology of Georg Simmel
The tourist
The Body
French Sociology Rupture and Renewal Since 1968
Etrangers a nous-memes
Introduction
Eccentric Subjects
The Concept of the Political
Feminist Theory
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The Predicament of Culture
Learning from the Outsider Within
Moving Spaces
Rhetoric and the Roots of the Homeless Mind
Modernity and Ambivalence
Carmen - or the Invention of a New Feminine Myth
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |