The Malaysian intellectual: A brief historical overview of the discourse
This paper focuses on the discourse in Malaysia concerning intellectuals. It asserts that in concert with political and sociological changes, the ‘field of meanings’ associated with the concept of ‘the intellectual’ and the actual social location of intellectual actors have undergone considerable...
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2009
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| Institution: | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This paper focuses on the discourse in Malaysia concerning intellectuals. It
asserts that in concert with political and sociological changes, the ‘field of
meanings’ associated with the concept of ‘the intellectual’ and the actual social
location of intellectual actors have undergone considerable change during the
twentieth century. This flags the challenge for historians who are telling today’s
stories about the past in today’s terms, but who have to try to understand that
past on its own terms. Further, it flags the challenge for social scientists to not
merely appropriate the concepts of past scholars in tying to understand the
present, but rather to also understand the context in which those ideas had
relevance. Along the way, this paper gives glimpses of the circumstances,
motivations and contributions of a number of leading Malaysian intellectual
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