Dramatic Intellectuals

Javier Pérez-Jara is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and East Asian Studies at the University of Seville, Spain, and a Faculty Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology, USA. His research spans cultural sociology and philosophy, focusing on the social construction of utopian and apocalyptic narratives, contemporary materialism, and the nature versus nurture debate. Nicolás Rudas is a sociologist and Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Yale University, USA. He is a Junior Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale. Nicolás’s research interests encompass the intersections of culture, radicalism, and democracy.

• Chapter 01: Who Are the Dramatic Intellectuals and What Do They Do? A Cultural-Sociological Analysis.- Part I: The Rise and Fall of Intellectuals.- Chapter 02: Dramatic Intellectuals.- Chapter 03: The Filmmaker as Public Intellectual: Pedro Almodóvar and the Post-Franco Cultural Explosion in Spain.- Chapter 04: Stop the Performance! Cancel Culture in the Contemporary Academy.- Part II: Intellectuals as Plot Writers: Narrating the World’s Crisis.- Chapter 05: Satire, Conspiracy, Dystopia: Agustín Laje’s Genre Work for the Latin American Reaction.- Chapter 06: Noam Chomsky and the Doomsday Clock.- Chapter 07: Lord Bertrand Russell, Prophet of the Industrial Apocalypse.- Part III: Mapping the World into Binaries.- Chapter 08: Carl Jung and the Search for the Sacred in the Realm of the Unconscious.- Chapter 09: Arne Naess and Ingemar Hedenius as Dramatic Intellectuals: Toward a Common Platform for Sociology of Knowledge and History of Knowledge.- Part IV: Hitting the Stage: Intellectuals Talk to the Audiences.- Chapter 10: Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson as Celebrity-Icons.- Chapter 11: The Curious Reception of Giorgio Agamben’s Pandemic Writings.- Chapter 12: Conclusion: The Drama Surrounding Intellectuals.