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intellectual
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thumb|Prominent contemporary public intellectuals include (left to right): Yuval Noah Harari|Harari, Chomsky, Žižek
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- Etymological background
- "Man of letters"
- "Intellectual"
- Historical uses
- Public intellectual<!-- 'Public intellectual' redirects here. -->
- Public engagement
- Public policy
- Intellectual status class
- Latin America
- United States
- Criticism
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Prominent contemporary public intellectuals include (left to right): Yuval Noah Harari|Harari, Chomsky, Žižek
An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the nature of reality, especially the nature of society and proposed solutions for its normative problems. Coming from the world of culture, either as a creator or as a mediator, the intellectual participates in politics, either to defend a concrete proposition or to denounce an injustice, usually by either rejecting, producing or extending an ideology, and by defending a system of values.