What Good Are Intellectuals?

In this collection of essays, interviews and survey responses, writers address the provocative question, What good are intellectuals? A principle of uncertainty and a throbbing hesitation over the intellectual's role, status and identity come to light in these remarks. This is an intimate dialogue in which some of today's best minds reflect the courage to face death - and life. Each writer talks from the context of his own country, be it South Africa, Israel, Algeria, or Peru, France or the United States, touching on the very essence of being and the challenges of being profoundly human in the modern age. Book jacket.

Author Jean-Marie Abgrall is Europe's foremost expert on cults, a practicing psychiatrist and a professional criminologist.