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A review essay on a book by Lee Congdon, Exile and Social Thought: Hungarian Intellectuals in Germany and Austria 1919-1933 (Princeton: Princeton U Press, 1991 [see listing in IRPS No. 70]). Congdon's book offers an intellectual history of Hungarian thinkers & statesmen exiled in Austria & Germany from 1919 to 1933, focusing on such notables as Georg Lukacs, Oskar Jaszi, Karl Polanyi, Karl Mannheim, & G. K. Chesterton. Congdon criticizes Lukacs for his Stalinist leanings but praises him for his penetrating approach to literature & society, & claims Mannheim as heir to the intellectual legacy of Max Weber. Written from the perspective of the Hungarian anti-Soviet democratic Left, Congdon's book is praised for contextualizing the Hungarian avant gardes of the 1920s & for making the Magyarophone culture accessible to non-Hungarians. W. Howard

The role of intellectuals in politics today is seen as one of futile outsiders who are attempting to legitimize their loss of faith in the democratic process & lack of hope in making it work. Two examples illustrate the argument: the position on the savings & loan scandal taken by Larry Martz, contributing editor of Newsweek ("S & Ls: Blaming the Media," 25 June 1990) & popular culture theorist Andrew Ross of Princeton U (eg, Universal Abandon: The Politics of Postmodernism [no publication information provided]). It is hoped that the legacy of ten generations of leftist intellectuals in US politics will not be discarded as easily as members of the press & the professoriate have managed to do. M. Malas

The Israeli intellectual scene seems to exhibit a failure of leadership. The older generation has little to offer since it is still living on the intellectual capital of its Diaspora backgound & either regards present-day reality as a falling-off from its original moral values or has sunk into the relative security of running the machinery of statehood (whether in a kibbutz branch or a ministry). The younger generation, born or raised in Israel is torn between the Zionist vision on which it was brought up & the present-day reality which no longer fits it. This younger generation has also been raised as a part of the Western world, but has not yet come into its inheritance, except in the natural sci's. Disinherited of its Judaism it faces the responsibility of choosing a `usable past.' It feels that it has taken part in a great historic enterprise (the creation of the state) but does not have the imaginative power or the perspective in time to invent great myths about it. This is a transitional generation-aware that life is far more complex than its parents thought, but these stirrings of awareness have so far produced only confusion & gropings. J. A. Fishman.

: The present literature review brings together conceptualizations and study results obtained from extensive work that has been done on the virtue of Intellectual Humility (IH) for the pasts 9 years. While philosophers don't settle yet to a single point of view on intellectual humility, psychologists take a pragmatic stance on the construct and evaluate possible implications IH can have on personal, social, and professional levels. The term is being extended to organizations, teams and organizational culture and studied in the intricate relationships established in the corporate culture. Studies in leadership also provide an insight of how organizations can benefit from the vision and culture a humble leader promotes.