THE CONCEPT OF INTELLECTUAL ACCORDING TO HABERMAS AND BAUMAN

The concept of intellectual emerged in the late nineteenth century. With the Enlightenment, "intellectuals" had taken on the task of creation and dissemination of information. What we called intellectual was composed of people known by society such as writer, poet, artist journalist. Intellectuals provided the common sense of truth, moral and aesthetic values in society. The intellectual was the person who could also go outside his field, and was interested in world matters at the time he lived. With the emergence of postmodernism against modernism and the fall of modernism into the crisis of truth, the position of the intellectuals has begun to be shaken. In this study, the thoughts of Jurgen Habermas, who discussed the concept of intellectual in the frame of the modern period, and the toughts of Zygmunt Bauman, who evaluated the same concept in the setting of the postmodern period were discussed and compared with each other