Intelligentzia indeed
Hace poco más de un mes publiqué una entrada sobre los intelectuales más influyentes en el mundo de hoy. Ya todos sabemos, como inclusive lo comenta Pancho Con, que el gran triunfador fue Trotsky, digo Chomsky. Sin embargo, ahora que sale el nuevo número de la revista Prospect, se publica un resumen comentado de las votaciones finales, del cual presento estos extractos:Over 20,000 people voted... more than half of the top 30 are based in North America. Europe, by contrast, is surprisingly under-represented (Eco, Habermas)... the most striking absence is France—one name in the top 40, fewer than Iran or Peru.
There is not one woman in the top ten... voters did not use the “bonus ball” to champion new faces... the top two names, Milton Friedman and Stephen Hawking, do not represent new strands of thought.
The poll was in one sense a victim of its own success... Chomsky decided to draw attention to his presence on the list by using their personal websites to link to Prospect’s voting page... a clear majority of votes were from Britain and America, with a fair sprinkling from other parts of Europe and the English-speaking world... there was very little voting from the far east, which may explain why four of the bottom five on the list were thinkers from Japan and China.
What is most interesting about the votes, though, is the age of the top names... only two in the top nine—Hitchens and Rushdie—were born after the second world war... this may reflect the age of the voters, choosing familiar names.
posted by Roberto A. Juarez-Garza @ 6:58:00 p.m.
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