Critical intellectuals must carry academic questions into political arenas

Evidence

Nevertheless, it figures as part of my ongoing responsibility for a debate which is wider, which cannot be contained simply in an academic debate. That’s not to say it doesn’t draw on academic research: there’s a whole literature around flexible specialization and global integration on which the “New Times” debate is drawing. But it is drawing on it in a way which suggests that these are questions that need to be debated in a political as well as an intellectual and cultural-critical-theoretical arena. Those different overlapping arenas of debate do exist; they can be found. And intellectuals who believe in intellectual work as a serious project must try to address those questions to those audiences as part of what they do , as part of a responsibility that is laid on them in trying to be critical intellectuals and to do critical intellectual work. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 262

Categorization

• DEFINE: States Hall’s working definition of the critical intellectual: one whose responsibility reaches beyond academia into political arenas.
• QUESTION: How did the flexible specialization and global integration literatures — here glossed as the academic ground of New Times — connect to economic theory specifically?
• XREF: connects to: Academic institutionalization threatens the political stakes of critical theory — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 257; Critical theory has an inner political dynamic demanding concrete positions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2671; The decline of political intellectuals tracks the decline of critical politics — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2632 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Academic institutionalization threatens the political stakes of critical theory — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 257; Critical theory has an inner political dynamic demanding concrete positions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2671; The decline of political intellectuals tracks the decline of critical politics — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2632 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Institutionalizing a critical field can strip it of political meaning #complicates (0.85)
• Academic institutionalization threatens the political stakes of critical theory #complicates (0.82) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 257
• Public intellectual status can function as an evasion of rigorous political work #complicates (0.80)