Intellectuals
Overthink
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The Ivory Tower and the Politics of Politics
He quotes Gerta at some point and uses this phrase as his motto for the book. He's also talking about people who in his eyes start using their intellectual standing or identity to justify fundamentally partisan positions. And he says, all these people have abandoned the arena of intellectual life for politics. So this is what happens when intellectuals become spokespeople for a political worldview.
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