Victims, Power and Intellectuals: Laruelle and Sartre

Adler and Sartre: comment.

I was very much interested in the article by Rom and Ansbacher entitled "An Adlerian Case or a Character by Sartre?" (4) not only because of its intrinsic value but also because I had myself analyzed the hero of Sartre's story "Erostratus" (5, pp. 41-58) and others of this author's characters from the angle of Adler's Individual Psychology some I 5 years ago (6, 7). Before quoting from this ana...

Intellectuals and New Technologies

Critical intellectuals were traditionally those who utilized their skills of speaking and writing to denounce injustices and abuses of power, and to fight for truth, justice, progress, and other positive values. In the words of Jean-Paul Sartre (1974: 285), "the duty of the intellectual is to denounce injustice wherever it occurs." The modern critical intellectual's field of action was what Hab...

Diaspora , Intellectuals , and the State

NO AREA OF PUBLIC CONSCIENCE ILLUST"TES THE ANXIOUS MEETING of state policy and cultural mythology more than illegal immigration. As once-con#dent national polities in Europe and the United States su$er a series of economic shocks, a backlash has gathered momentum, targeting the imported labor that in many ways symbolizes the so% core of the old regimes’ economic foundations. A variety of extre...

Intellectuals and the Rise of Mass Politics

Elderly Victims; Disabilities and Protections

Introduction and purpose: Population aging in Iran is on a steep pace, however, there is still insufficient planning and focus in this area and the regulation of elderly affairs is not adequately supported. An analysis of the current situation and the future outlook suggests that there are disabilities in the present, and that the complexity and challenges of the future will be compounded and e...