TY - BOOK ID - 30682942 TI - The forum and the tower : how scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt PY - 2011 SN - 0190252537 1283160307 9786613160300 0199843775 9780199843770 9780190252533 9780199782451 0199782458 0199843732 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political science KW - Scholars KW - Learning and scholarship KW - History. KW - Political activity KW - Political aspects KW - Erudition KW - Scholarship KW - State, The KW - History of theories KW - Civilization KW - Intellectual life KW - Education KW - Learned institutions and societies KW - Research KW - Persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30682942 AB - The Forum and the Tower tackles a fascinating and perennial topic: the relationship between the academy and the world of politics. For all the talk about the remoteness of ivory tower ideas from 'the real world,' it is the case that ideas do in fact have consequences. In recent US history, the careers of Henry Kissinger and Daniel Patrick Moynihan illustrate how ideas drive politics. Oftentimes the translations of ideas into action results in severe distortions of their original meaning, but the relationship between ideas and revolutionary political and social change is a constant. The accompl ER -