For the Love
The Amateur Humanist Intellectual
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/eph.v21i1.49Keywords:
public intellectuals, expert knowledge, professionalization, institutionalization, organic intellectual, amateurism, humanismAbstract
The twenty-first century has experienced a surge of intellectuals and specialists that dominate understandings of life and human phenomena. Reawakening the Gramscian definition of the organic intellectual, this paper problematizes ideas of intellectual qualification. It argues that an amateuristic mind will ultimately come to appreciate a humanistic intellectualism. The paper also argues that those working in institutions of education must allow their humanistic endeavors for facilitating the growth of others and the self to be driven by amateurism.
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Farmer, Rod. 1984. “Humanistic Education and Self-Actualization Theory,” Education 105(2): 162–172.
Frankl, Victor. 2006. Man’s Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press.
Fromm, Erich. 1955. The Sane Society. New York: Henry Holt.
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Gramsci, Antonio. 1971. Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, trans. and ed. Q. Hoare, and G. Nowell-Smith. London: Lawrence & Wishart.
Gunnison, Hugh. 1985. “The Uniqueness of Similarities: Parallels of Milton H. Erickson and Carl Rogers,” Journal Of Counseling & Development 63(9): 561–564.
Habermas, Jurgen. 1990. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, trans. Christian Lenhardt and Sherry Weber Nicholson. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Haley, William. 1976. “Amateurism,” American Scholar 45(2): 253–259.
Hansen, James. 2000. “Psychoanalysis and Humanism: A Review and Critical Examination of Integrationist Efforts with Some Proposed Resolutions,” Journal of Counseling & Development 78(1): 21–28.
Hansen, James. 2005. “Postmodernism and Humanism: A Proposed Integration of Perspectives that Value Human Meaning Systems,” Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education & Development 44(1): 3–15.
Hansen, James. 2007. “Relational and Transcendental Humanism: Exploring the Consequences of a Thoroughly Pragmatic Humanism,” Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education & Development 46(2): 131–141.
Hansen, Phillip. 1993. Hannah Arendt: Politics, History and Citizenship. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press.
Haski-Leventhal, Debbie. 2009. “Altruism and Volunteerism: The Perceptions of Altruism in Four Disciplines and Their Impact on the Study of Volunteerism,” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 39(3): 271–299. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5914.2009.00405.x.
Horney, Karen. 1970. Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self Realization. New York: W. W. Norton.
Hughes, Christina. 2002. “Beyond the Poststructuralist-Modern Impasse: The Woman Returner as ‘Exile’ and ‘Nomad’,” Gender & Education 14(4): 411–424. doi:10.1080/0954025022000020117.
Huxley, Aldous. 1990. The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. New York: Perennial Library.
Iannone, Ron. 2001. “An Educator in Exile,” Journal of Instructional Psychology 28(1): 38– 43.
Jorge, Ethel. 2011. “Assessing the Value of a Community-Based Approach to Language and Cultural Learning: A Longitudinal Study,” Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning 11(1): 33–52.
Kerouac, Jack. 2008. On the Road: The Original Scroll. New York: Penguin.
Kirschenbaum, Howard. 2004. “Carl Rogers’s Life and Work: An Assessment on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth,” Journal of Counseling & Development 82(1): 116–124.
Kroll, Catherine. 2008. “Imagining Ourselves into Transcultural Spaces: Decentering Whiteness in the Classroom,” in Undoing Whiteness in the Classroom: Critical Educultural Teaching Approaches for Social Justice Activism, ed. V. Lea and E. J. Sims (New York: Peter Lang), pp. 29–46.
Maslow, Abraham. 1968/1998. Toward a Psychology of Being. New York: J. Wiley & Sons.
Maslow, Abraham. 1971. The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. New York: Viking.
Moustakas, Clark. 1956. The Self: Explorations in Personal Growth. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Moustakas, Clark. 1966. “The Dying Self Within the Living Self,” in Existential Child Therapy: The Child’s Discovery of Himself, ed. C. Moustakas (New York: Basic Books), pp. 9–29.
Muñoz, Jose. 1999. Disidentification: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Nixon, Jon. 2006. “Towards a Hermeneutics of Hope: The Legacy of Edward W. Said,” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 27(3): 341–356. doi:10.1080/01596300600838793.
Nixon, Jon. 2008. “Public Educators as Interpretive Critics: Edward Said and Raymond Williams,” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 29(2): 143–157. doi:10.1080/01596300801966518.
Perls, Fritz. 1973. The Gestalt Approach & Eye Witness to Therapy. Ben Lomond, Cal.: Science & Behavior Books.
Peters, Michael. 2008. “Wittgenstein as Exile: A Philosophical Topography,” Educational Philosophy & Theory 40(5): 591–605. doi:10.1111/j.1469-5812.2008.00448.x.
Popper, Karl. 2005. The Poverty of Historicism. London and New York: Routledge.
Postman, Neil, and Weingartner, Charles. 1969. Teaching as a Subversive Activity. New York: Delta Publishing.
Rilke, Rainer. 1930. The Journal of My Other Self, trans. John Linton. New York: W.W. Norton.
Rilke, Rainer. 2000. Letters to a Young Poet, trans. J. M. Burnham. Novato, Cal.: New World Library.
Rizvi, Fazal and Lingard, Bob. 2006. “Edward Said and the Cultural Politics of Education,” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 27(3): 293–308. doi:10.1080/01596300600838744.
Robinson, Ken. 2011. Out of our Minds: Learning to be Creative. Chichester, UK: Capstone Publishing.
Rogers, Carl. 1969. Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Become. Columbus, Ohio: C. E. Merrill.
Rogers, Carl. 1977. Carl Rogers on Personal Power. New York: Delacorte Press.
Rogers, Carl. 1980. A Way of Being. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Said, Edward. 1983. The World, The Text, and The Critic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Said, Edward. 1996. Representations of the Intellectual. New York: Vintage.
Said, Edward. 2000. Reflections on Exile and Other Essays. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press.
Said, Edward. 2001. Power, Politics and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said. New York: Pantheon Books.
Said, Edward. 2004. Humanism and Democratic Criticism. New York: Columbia University Press.
Searle, John. 1994. The Rediscovery of the Mind. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Smrtic, James. 2010. Abnormal Psychology: Classic Perspectives. Deer Park, N.Y.: Linus Publications.
Suhd, Melvin. 1995. Positive Regard: Carl Rogers and Other Notables He Influenced. Palo Alto, Cal.: Science and Behavior Books.
Woods, Annette. 2009. “Learning to be Literate: Issues of Pedagogy for Recently Arrived Refugee Youth in Australia,” Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 6(1–2): 81–101.
Zucca-Scott, Laura. 2010. “Know Thyself: The Importance of Humanism in Education,” International Education 40(1): 32–38.
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2014-07-21
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Kazanjian, C. (2014). For the Love: The Amateur Humanist Intellectual. Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, 21(1), 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1558/eph.v21i1.49
