Not a Sin, but a Side Effect: Collaboration and Knowledge Creation by the Organic Intellectuals

Olga Procevska

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Not a Sin, but a Side Effect: Collaboration and Knowledge Creation by the Organic Intellectuals

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Pages:: 109–126

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401207447_007

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Collaboration between intellectuals and power is usually discussed in the contexts of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. In most cases it is defined in diplomatic or moralistic terms (either as a technique for survival or a sin). I propose a slightly different look at the problem of collaboration that reaches beyond both contexts of repressive regimes and the interpretational dichotomy of diplomacy or morality. I believe that collaboration of intellectuals should be regarded specifically because they are engaged in essentially ideological (power-related) work - creating and disseminating knowledge. My aim in this paper is to investigate a broader set of factors surrounding the notion of collaboration, attachment, engagement and detachment, and autonomy. By considering the generally and currently important conditions of intellectual work, a new type of organic intellectual can be distinguished: one that finds itself and, to employ Mannheim’s terminology, floats freely between the identity of a politically affiliated player in the life of the community and of a detached thinker and critic of the latter at the same time.

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Understanding Knowledge Creation

Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts

Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 78

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401207447

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2012

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