Intellectual

An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, or speculate on a variety of different ideas.

References

• de Huszar, George B., ed. The Intellectuals: A Controversial Portrait. Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1960. (Anthology with many contributors.)
• Johnson, Paul, Intellectuals. Perennial, 1990, ISBN 0060916575. A highly ideological onslaught discussing Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, Noam Chomsky, and others
• Frank Furedi (2004), Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?, Continuum