Understanding Knowledge Creation: Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries)

__Understanding Knowledge Creation: Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts__ brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and cultures and involves them into a multi-dimensional dialogue on the mechanisms of knowledge creation in the present-day society with a specific focus on intellectuals as knowledge creators in three main arenas of their activity: the 'institutionalized' arena - academia - and two adjacent arenas: the public sphere and the arts. Understanding Knowledge Creation: Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts 3 Table of Contents 5 Introduction Intellectuals and the Transformation of Knowledge Creation 7 Part I Intellectuals in Academia: Institutionalized Knowledge Creation 21 The Rationalization of Academia: From Bildung to Production 23 The Democratic Intellect Reconsidered 37 Part II Intellectuals in the Public Sphere: ‘Organic’ Knowledge Creation 53 Post-Apartheid Organic Intellectual and Knowledge Creation 55 Walter A. Rodney and the Instrumentalist Construction and Utilization of Knowledge 75 Possibilities and Risks of Influencing Public Knowledge: The Case of Hrant Dink 103 Not a Sin, but a Side Effect: Collaboration and Knowledge Creation by the Organic Intellectuals 129 Part III Intellectuals in the Arts: Emotional Knowledge Creation 147 Art and the Passion of Intellect 149 Emotional Intelligence: Literature, Ethics and Affective Cognition in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace 161 Aesthetic Emotional Experience: From Eye Irritation to Knowledge 183 Conclusion Knowledge Creation in the Intellectual Networks 203 Notes on Contributors 227 "Understanding Knowledge Creation: Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and cultures and involves them into a multi-dimensional dialogue on the mechanisms of knowledge creation in the present-day society with a specific focus on intellectuals as knowledge creators in three main arenas of their activity: the 'institutionalized' arena - academia - and two adjacent arenas: the public sphere and the arts."--Publisher's website.