"Definitions of the intellectual are many and diverse. They have, however, one trait in common, which makes them also different from all other definitions: they are all self-definitions. Indeed, their authors are the members of the same rare species they attempt to define… . The specifically intellectual form of the operation—self-definition—masks its universal content which is the reproduction and reinforcement of a given social configuration, and—with it—a given (or claimed) status for the group."
— Zygmunt Bauman, Legislators and Interpreters: On Modernity, Post-Modernity and Intellectuals (via fuckyeahtheorists)
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