Keeping the organic-intellectual ideal in view changes the character of scholarly work

Evidence

Nevertheless, I hold on to the notion of the organic intellectual because I think it puts a shadow across intellectual work. If it’s done with the realization of that worldliness of our object and of our own situation—of the location and constraints of our own institutional position—it comes out differently. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 266

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Organic intellectual work resists inscribing itself into metanarratives of achieved knowledge (similarity 0.84)
• Holding to the organic intellectual ideal shapes intellectual work even under fragmented politics. (similarity 0.84)
• Intellectual practice is reproduced through teaching, not only through writing (similarity 0.83)
• Academic institutionalization can eliminate productive theoretical tension (similarity 0.83)
• Teaching is itself a form of intellectual production (similarity 0.82)
• Institutional practice, not doctrine, produces organic intellectuals. (similarity 0.82)
• Academic work and intellectual work are distinct despite their overlap (similarity 0.81)
• Intellectual work must intervene in the world, distinct from academic work (similarity 0.80)
• Organic intellectuals must advance theory and transmit it simultaneously. (similarity 0.79)
• Ideas can only be dissolved by overturning material social relations, not criticism. (similarity 0.78)
• Academic institutionalization can drain the political tension from intellectual work, not theory alone. (similarity 0.78)