How to be Intellectual Author:Steve Fuller Norman Mailer, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Germaine Greer, Martin Amis...the Intellectuals, with their regular TV appearances, newspaper columns and soundbites in times of crisis, are essential characters in the drama of modern life. Want to learn the tricks of the trade? Here's how. In 1532 Niccolo Machiavelli published his notorious... more » tract on statecraft, The Prince. It was a practical how-to for rulers - a 16th-century demagogy for dummies. In this caustic and deftly satirical new book, with Machiavelli firmly in mind, Steve Fuller brilliantly dissects a Prince of our time - the Intellectual. Fans of David Lodge or Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man will quickly warm to Fuller, mid-Atlanticist Professor of Sociology, who explores with characteristic esprit the inner mind and social habits of this most cunning of creatures...What is an intellectual? What distinguishes them from philosophers, scientists, politicians and entrepreneurs? How do they stalk their quarry? What codes do they live by? Why are they happy to be insulted as long as they are not ignored? Get to the heart of what it means to be an intellectual and meet exemplars along the way like Voltaire and Sartre. If you think there is only one side to an argument, then clearly you're not yet an intellectual.« less