{"id":80055,"date":"2025-11-12T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pulse-z.eu\/have-the-intellectuals-left-the-building\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:45:21","slug":"czy-intelektualisci-opuscili-budynek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pulse-z.eu\/pl\/czy-intelektualisci-opuscili-budynek\/","title":{"rendered":"Czy intelektuali\u015bci opu\u015bcili budynek?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was after the end of World War II that the awakening of this first generation came in, which acted on the pendulum of ideologies. Intellectualism was almost a public duty, not only political but also social, a means of socialization even for the younger generation. In those years, ideas became dangerous as they enjoyed popularity and could shape policies, and intellectuals\u2014from the lecture halls of Paris to the debates at MIT\u2014were not marginal, but rather, one might say, acted at the center of society.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the “age of ideologies” \u2014 when Marxism, existentialism, and liberalism still clashed in the caf\u00e9s of the Latin Quarter and the studios of the BBC, and public discourse still had the naivety to believe that thought could change the world. A typical example is Noam Chomsky’s text from that period, in which he wrote in<\/span> “The Responsibility of Intellectuals”<\/span><\/a> (1967) “it is the responsibility of intellectuals to tell the truth and expose lies.” This was his moral and political credo: that intellectuals, having access to knowledge, resources, and freedom of speech, have a special duty\u2014not just to comment, but to expose. A phrase almost emblematic of an era when public reflection was not an academic sport but an act of resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n