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The eminent British literary scholar Terry Eagleton points out "nobody has ever changed a world they didn't understand, and this is where intellectuals have a role to play."

Eagleton is doing more than rephrasing the famous reprimand of Karl Marx to philosophers who had only tried to understand the world, when the task was to change it. His Red Pepper article is entitled 'Death of the Intellectual,' and Eagleton shows how British universities are failing to produce public intellectuals, leaving that role to brave writers and artists.