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Book SynopsisIntroduction. Who are the Dramatic Intellectuals and What do They do? A Cultural-Sociological Analysis (Javier Pérez-Jara and Nicolás Rudas).- PART 1 - The Rise and Fall of Intellectuals.- Dramatic Intellectuals (Jeffrey Alexander).- The Filmmaker as Public Intellectual: Pedro Almodóvar and the Post-Franco Cultural Explosion in Spain (Ron Eyerman).- Stop the performance! Cancel Culture in the Contemporary Academy (Zeina Al Azmeh and Patrick Baert).- PART 2 - Intellectuals as Plot Writers: Narrating the World’s Crisis.- Satire, Conspiracy, Dystopia: Agustín Laje’s Genre Work for the Latin American Reaction (Nicolás Rudas).- Lord Bertrand Russell, Prophet of the Industrial Judgement Day (Javier Pérez-Jara).- Noam Chomsky and the Doomsday Clock (Íñigo Ongay).- PART 3 - Mapping the World Into Binaries.- Carl Jung and the Search for the Sacred in the Realm of the Unconscious (Irene Martínez-Sahuquillo).- Arne Naess and Ingemar Hedenius as Dramatic Intellectuals (Henrik Lundberg).- From Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus: Yuval Noah Harari as Oracular Philosopher (Duzan Avila).- PART 4 - Hitting the Stage: Intellectuals Talk to the Audiences.- Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson as Celebrity-Icons (Eliran Bar-El).- How to Connect with Unexpected Audiences: Giorgio Agamben and the Covid-19 Pandemic (Federico Brandmayr).
