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ON THE BENEFITS OF A SOCIOLOGY OF PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS FOR MODERN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

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PatrickBaert, The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual (Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2015)
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

ADAM F. KOLA
ADAM F. KOLA*
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Faculty of Languages, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland E-mail: adamkola@umk.pl
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Modern Intellectual History , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , August 2018 , pp. 607 - 619
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13 That is probably the reason why Baert does not take into account e.g. Dominick LaCapra's classical study A Preface to Sartre (Ithaca, 1978).

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