Politics and Literature

But as soon as he becomes aware of the contradiction, as soon as his job leads him to challenge, in the name of the universal, the particular within himself and hence everywhere, then he is an intellectual.

certain type of humanism which represents itself as universal but is in fact restrictive

What on the other hand defines an intellectual in our society is the deep-seated contradiction between the universality which bourgeois society is obliged to grant his knowledge and the particular ideological and political framework within which he is forced to apply it