Anachronisme et légitimité de la notion d’intellectuel pré-moderne
Danièle Letocha
The term intellectuals(s) has been in use for scarcely more than one century. What is its definition? conditions of possibility govern the emergence Modern intellectual? How many these can be traced to past? typological approach used here sets origin intellectual’s role and status new paradigm power established Carolingian times (781–804), which displayed a peculiar axiom: idea that all Power intrinsically divisible. This view was already five centuries-old when Petrarch claimed autonomous position cultural critic—not status, but some his authority, though on different grounds.
Renaissance and Reformation