List of top 100 intellectuals includes only 10 women http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,1582174,00.html Polly Curtis and Joy PersaudFriday September 30, 2005 In a list of the worlds top 100 public intellectuals, there are only 10 women to be found.Germaine Greer, the feminist and one-time celebrity Big Brother contestant, and anti-globalisation journalist Naomi Klein were among those women to make Prospect magazines annual list.The eight other women are Florence Wambugu, a plant virologist from Kenya; Elaine Scarry, an American literary theorist; Martha Nussbaum, a US philosopher; Sunita Narain, an Indian developmental environmentalist; Camille Paglia, an American US critic and feminist; Shirin Ebadi, a human rights activist from Iran; Julia Kristeva, a philosopher and feminist from France, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a politician from Somalia and the Netherlands.Commenting on the list, writer David Herman criticises its strong male content, querying the whereabouts of the new generation of female intellectuals.As worrying as the omissions are the names of women who made the list: Klein, [US literary theorist] Scarry, [philosopher and feminist] Kristeva (surely a figure from the distant past)?This partly reflects the dominance of the male world of strategic studies and policy institutes.Half of those on the list live in the United States, and Mr Herman notes that Paris, once a centre of global ideas that was associated with names such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, is no longer a significant presence on the list, with only a handful of entries.Also, the list is heavy on philosophers and short on scientists, with the British biologist - also listed as a polemicist - Richard Dawkins appearing, plus the evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker and the physicist Steven Weinberg.Controversially, the list includes Paul Wolfowitz, the head of the World Bank and a key proponent of the neo-conservative movement in the States. He is widely believed to have influenced the 2003 war in Iraq.The list is largely representative of the global state of political affairs, with a number of experts on the Middle East and Islam appearing, including the Egyptian cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the philosopher Tariq Ramadan.This list is, in part, a reflection of the preoccupations of the Anglo-American centre at a particular moment, added Herman.Some might argue that the compilers have bent over backwards to include thinkers from outside the West ... Would there have been so many Africans and Arabs 10 years ago?The top 100 intellectuals, in alphabetical order: Chinua Achebe, 74, Nigeria, novelist
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 79 - Egypt, cleric Ali al-Sistani, 75 - Iran/Iraq, cleric Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 35 - (F) Somalia/Netherlands, politician Jean Baudrillard, 76 - France, philosopher/cultural theorist Gary Becker, 75 - US, economist Pope Benedict XVI, 78 - Vatican, religious leader Jagdish Bhagwati, 70 - India/US, economist Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 74 - Brazil, sociologist/former president Noam Chomsky, 76 - US, linguist/author/activist JM Coetzee, 65 - South Africa, novelist Gordon Conway, 66 - Britain, agricultural ecologist Robert Cooper, - Britain, diplomat and writer Richard Dawkins, 64 - Britain, biologist and polemicist Hernando De Soto, 64 - Peru, economist Pavol Demes, - Slovakia, political analyst Daniel Dennett, 63 - US, philosopher Kemal Dervis, 56 - Turkey, head of UNDP Jared Diamond, 68 - US, geohistorian Freeman Dyson, 81 - US, physicist Shirin Ebadi, 58 - (F) Iran, human rights activist Umberto Eco, 73 - Italy, philosopher and novelist Paul Ekman, 71 - US, anthropologist Fan Gang, 52 - China, economist Niall Ferguson, 41 - Britain, historian Alain Finkielkraut, 56 - France, essayist and philosopher Thomas Friedman, 52 - US, journalist and author Francis Fukuyama, 53 - US, political scientist and author Gao Xingjian, 65 - China, novelist Howard Gardner, 62 - US, psychologist Timothy Garton Ash, 50 - Britain, historian and commentator Henry Louis Gates Jr., 55 - US, theorist of race Clifford Geertz, 79 - US, anthropologist Neil Gershenfeld - US, physicist and computer scientist Anthony Giddens, 67 - Britain, social and political theorist Germaine Greer, 66 - (F) Australia/Britain, writer and academic Ha Jin, 49 - China, novelist Jürgen Habermas, 76 - Germany, philosopher Václav Havel, 69 - Czech Republic, playwright/statesman Christopher Hitchens, 56 - Britain/US, essayist and contrarian Eric Hobsbawm, 88 - Britain, historian Robert Hughes, 67 - Australia, art critic Samuel Huntington, 78 - US, political scientist Michael Ignatieff, 58 - Canada, human rights theorist Shintaro Ishihara, 72 - Japan, politician and author Robert Kagan, 47 - US, political commentator Daniel Kahnemann, 71 - Israel, psychologist Sergei Karaganov, 53 - Russia, foreign policy analyst Paul Kennedy, 59 - Britain/US, historian Gilles Kepel, 50 - France, expert on Islam Naomi Klein, 35 - (F) Canada, anti-globalisation journalist Rem Koolhaas, 61 - Netherlands, architect Enrique Krauze, 58 - Mexico, historian Julia Kristeva, 64 - (F) France, philosopher and feminist Paul Krugman, 52 - US, economist and commentator Hans Küng, 77 - Switzerland, theologian Jaron Lanier, 45 - US, virtual reality pioneer Lawrence Lessig, 44 - US, law scholar Bernard Lewis, 89 - Britain/US, historian Mario Vargas Llosa, 69 - Peru, novelist and politician BjØrn Lomborg, 40 - Denmark, environmental sceptic James Lovelock, 86 - Britain, scientist and Gaia theorist Kishore Mahbubani, 57 - Singapore, diplomat and author Ali Mazrui, 72 - Kenya, political scientist Sunita Narain, 44 - (F) India, developmental environmentalist Antonio Negri, 72 - Italy, philosopher and activist Martha Nussbaum, 58 - (F) US, philosopher Sari Nusseibeh, 55 - Palestine, philosopher/diplomat Kenichi Ohmae, 62 - Japan, management theorist Amos Oz, 66 - Israel, novelist Camille Paglia, 58 - (F) US, critic and feminist Orhan Pamuk, 53 - Turkey, novelist Steven Pinker, 51 - US, linguist Richard Posner, 66 - US, judge and author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 80 - Indonesia, author and dissident Robert Putnam, 64 - US, political scientist Tariq Ramadan, 43 - Switzerland, writer on Islam Martin Rees, 63 - Britain, astrophysicist Richard Rorty, 73 - US, philosopher Salman Rushdie, 58 - Britain, novelist and commentator Jeffrey Sachs, 51 - US, development economist Elaine Scarry, 59 - (F) US, literary theorist Amartya Sen, 71 - India, economist and author Peter Singer, 59 - Australia, philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, 58 - Germany, philosopher Abdolkarim Soroush, 60 - Iran, scientist/religious theorist Wole Soyinka, 71 - Nigeria, playwright and activist Larry Summers, 51 - US, economist and academic Harold Varmus, 64 - US, medical scientist Craig Venter, 59 - US, biologist Michael Walzer, 70 - US, political theorist Florence Wambugu, 52 - (F) Kenya, plant virologist Wang Jisi, 57 - China, foreign policy analyst Steven Weinberg, 72 - US, physicist EO Wilson, 76 - US, biologist James Q Wilson, 74 - US, criminologist Paul Wolfowitz, 61 - US, head of World Bank Fareed Zakaria, 41 - US, journalist and author Zheng Bijian, 73 - China, political scientist Slavoj Zizek, 56 - Slovenia, sociologist/philosopher --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. 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