This introduction to the Special Section on public intellectual engagement has three objectives. First, to explore the different meanings that the polysemic term ‘strategy’ can hold in relation to intellectuals. In the process, we showcase both this concept’s potential theoretical yield and its capacity to bridge the ‘performative’ and event-oriented study of intellectuals more common in English-speaking sociology with longue durée career-oriented analyses more associated with French sociology. The second objective is to reassess some of the main contributions to the sociology of intellectuals by reference to this notion of ‘strategy’, especially concerning issues of political allegiance and group membership. The final objective is to illustrate the potential of this approach in empirical work on intellectual engagement and introduce the articles that comprise the Special Section.

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公共知识分子参与的策略

关于公共知识参与的特别部分的介绍有三个目标。首先，探讨多义词“战略”对知识分子的不同含义。在此过程中，我们展示了这一概念的潜在理论成果及其将英语社会学中更常见的知识分子的“表演性”和事件导向研究与与法国社会学更相关的长期职业导向分析联系起来的能力。第二个目标是通过参考这个“战略”概念，重新评估对知识分子社会学的一些主要贡献，特别是关于政治忠诚和团体成员的问题。