public intellectual

C107
concept

A public intellectual is a thinker who engages broad audiences by applying specialized knowledge and critical analysis to contemporary social, political, or cultural issues in accessible, influential ways.

All labels observed (12)

Label Occurrences
philosopher 1,361
legal scholar 282
intellectual 200

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: public intellectual
Generated description
A public intellectual is a thinker who engages broad audiences by applying specialized knowledge and critical analysis to contemporary social, political, or cultural issues in accessible, influential ways.

Instances (2,011)

Instance Via concept surface
John H. Knox legal scholar
Karl Korsch philosopher
Louis Althusser philosopher
Nicos Poulantzas legal scholar
Henri Lefebvre philosopher
Hans Blumenberg philosopher
Miroslav Tyrš philosopher
Friedrich von Gentz conservative intellectual
Max Stirner philosopher
Beth Nolan legal scholar
Benjamin Constant philosopher
John Milton intellectual
William O. Douglas legal scholar
Leonard Nelson philosopher
John Broome philosopher
Walter Lippmann
Solomon Maimon philosopher
Michael B. Gerrard legal scholar
Michael Burger legal scholar
Gregorio Marañón liberal intellectual
Lawrence Mark Sanger philosopher
Nicholas Wisdom philosopher
Bruno Bauer philosopher
Friedrich Hölderlin philosopher
Ferdinand Tönnies philosopher
Saadi philosopher
James Watt Jr. intellectual
Danielle Holley-Walker legal scholar
Dante Alighieri philosopher
Eduard Spranger philosopher
Michael Polanyi philosopher
Yochai Benkler legal scholar
Harry Prosch philosopher
Enrique Tierno Galván intellectual
Omar Khayyam philosopher
Leslie Stephen philosopher
Samuel Taylor Coleridge philosopher
Ray Jackendoff cognitive scientist
Frederic Henry Hedge philosopher
Henry Hedge philosopher
Socrates philosopher
Max Eastman
Erik Møse legal scholar
Joseph Story legal scholar
Heywood Broun social critic
Pierre Bourdieu philosopher
Kimberlé Crenshaw legal scholar
Geoffrey R. Stone legal scholar
Bar Hebraeus philosopher
John Oulton Wisdom philosopher