World's Top 100 Intellectuals

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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby seektravelinfo » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:45 am

why isn't Camille Paglia on that list? Or Orhan Pamuk, or even Jimmy Carter.
someone who posted here was correct, it seems to be more a list of pundits than intellectuals.
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby Stiv » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:52 am

seektravelinfo wrote:why isn't Camille Paglia on that list? Or Orhan Pamuk, or even Jimmy Carter.
someone who posted here was correct, it seems to be more a list of pundits than intellectuals.


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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby ROB » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:59 am

coldharvest wrote:
ROB wrote:[quote=Foreign Policy Magazine]For example, a number of intellectuals—including Aitzaz Ahsan, Noam Chomsky, Michael Ignatieff, and Amr Khaled—mounted voting drives by promoting the list on their Web sites. Others issued press releases or gave interviews to local newspapers.


Sorry, this list (as Sri Lanky noted) is clearly a pile of shit.

There is a co-citation index for acedemics which is a far better metric.

...so you're not Tariq Ramadan?[/quote]

You don't know where he ranks on the co-citation index ;)
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby seektravelinfo » Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:23 pm

Stiv wrote:
seektravelinfo wrote:why isn't Camille Paglia on that list? Or Orhan Pamuk, or even Jimmy Carter.
someone who posted here was correct, it seems to be more a list of pundits than intellectuals.


Your buddy Orahn P is #4 Char review your specs prescrip.

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Thank you, Stiv. I stand corrected. I do need to get my eyes checked.
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby flipflop » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:08 am

Funny that the Guardian would report a list top heavy with ragheads and knobheads

The greatest intellectual of the late 20th Century without question is:

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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby michelle in alaska » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:22 am

The greatest intellectual of the late 20th Century without question is:

..is WHO? (whom?)
anyhoo, I didn't bother to read through the last 8 or so pages of this thread, so my apologies if this gent's name had been mentioned...
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby coldharvest » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:24 am

It's Enoch Powell.
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby flipflop » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:26 am

....and he's dead

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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby coldharvest » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:27 am

flipflop wrote:....and he's dead

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what a shame
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby flipflop » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:29 am

The left were terrified of old Enoch, the Tories loss was the Unionists' gain - he was the greatest politician never to have been Prime Minister, but became the first notable sacrificial lamb to the nascent and nefarious pc movement - a great man

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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby michelle in alaska » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:47 am

Thank you.
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby Penta » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:23 am

The greatest intellectual of the late 20th Century without question is ... Enoch Powell?! Bloody hell. That tells you anything you want to know about flipflop. Or perhaps what you'd rather not know, if you want to carry on any sort of online relationship with him.
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby RYP » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:58 am

I always thought people on lists were people who desperately wanted to be on lists. People who thought the sound of their turds hitting the toilet bowl had meaning and resonance. People who create arguments on paper so they could win them in front of adoring cat ladies and ambiguously gay proto intellectuals. People who if they actually talked like they wrote in a bar full of longshoreman would be tossed into the street for being a pompous ass.

Aren't these the same people who quote books written by other academics who quote books from other academics? I see a handful of people that I would have more than a 15 minute discussion with but a lot of them are people who are professional pundits. The people who sound like Jerry Springer at the end of his show were he opines like Yoda.

I wonder who has done more to change human thought than anyone else?
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby Zero » Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:11 pm

When I first started taking political science courses, the first thing I did was start looking up citations; most of these people appear to circle jerk each other with them. They all say the same crap, and with some notable exceptions, it's basically useless.

Oh, and this looks interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powellism

I think I can get behind this powell fellow's ideas. "parliamentary democracy disintegrates when the national homogeneity of the electorate is broken down by a large and sharp alteration in the composition of the population"
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby flipflop » Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:45 pm

RYP wrote:
I wonder who has done more to change human thought than anyone else?


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