> A grad student e-mailed me asking the following question. I'd like to help
> him since he started with a compliment to posts I had put on an english
> dept list that made almost everyone else angry. I've never heard the term.
> Has anyone on this list.
>
> The query:
>
> "I'm trying to tie up is something about the genealogy of the term
> "transformative intellectual"--or at least a clear reference or two. I've
> come to use the term so "naturally" to denote Feirean, activist, public
> intellectuals--ones committed to progressive ends both inside and outside
> the academy--that when asked to locate the term I'm having a bizarrely
> difficult time tracking it down."
>
> Thanks if you can give him any help through me.
>
> Carrol Cox
>
>
Hate to tell you but I think the most recent user of the term was Newt Gingrich. You might have to check the reading list for his course on "Renewing American Civilization" (sic). I'm sure it's on the net somewhere.
MBS