Understanding Knowledge Creation Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts. Basov, Nikita and Oleksandra Nenko (Eds.) Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2012, XIX, 208 pp. Pb: 978-90-420-3462-4 € 45 / US$ 61

Series: At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 78 Understanding Knowledge Creation: Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and cultures and involves them into a multi-dimensional dialogue on the mechanisms of knowledge creation in the present-day society with a specific focus on intellectuals as knowledge creators in three main arenas of their activity: the ‘institutionalized’ arena - academia - and two adjacent arenas: the public sphere and the arts. Table of Contents Introduction Nikita Basov and Oleksandra Nenko: Intellectuals and the Transformation of Knowledge Creation Intellectuals in Academia: Institutionalized Knowledge Creation Jeroen van Andel: The Rationalization of Academia: From Bildung to Production James Moir: The Democratic Intellect Reconsidered Intellectuals in the Public Sphere: ‘Organic’ Knowledge Creation Sechaba Mahlomaholo and Vhonani Netshandama: Post-Apartheid Organic Intellectual and Knowledge Creation Tunde Adeleke: Walter A. Rodney and the Instrumentalist Construction and Utilization of Knowledge Georg F. Simet: Possibilities and Risks of Influencing Public Knowledge: The Case of Hrant Dink Olga Procevska: Not a Sin, but a Side Effect: Collaboration and Knowledge Creation by the Organic Intellectuals Intellectuals in the Arts: Emotional Knowledge Creation Carlos David García Mancilla: Art and the Passion of Intellect Claire Heaney: Emotional Intelligence: Literature, Ethics and Affective Cognition in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Oleksandra Nenko: Aesthetic Emotional Experience: From Eye Irritation to Knowledge Conclusion Nikita Basov: Knowledge Creation in the Intellectual Networks Notes on Contributors