"public intellectual" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2001 June 13, Chris Hedges, “Public Lives: Watching Bush's Language, and Television”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-24",
          "text": "\"I have always taken the role of public intellectual very, very seriously,\" said Mark Crispin Miller, 51, a professor of media ecology at New York University. \"A public intellectual is someone who engages in intellectual pursuits, airs intellectual concerns in a way the broad, literate public can understand. The tradition thrives in Europe, but the American public does not have the same expectation of its intellectuals.\"",
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          "ref": "2005, Louis Mazzari, \"New Introduction\" to Preface To Peasantry (1936) by Arthur Franklin Raper, p. xvii (Google preview)",
          "text": "As a sociologist, Raper concerned himself with everything from the legal impediments African Americans faced to the way blacks and whites arranged themselves around the hot stove in a small-town general store. He was among the first generation of southern public intellectuals, an engaged academic in a region where anti-intellectualism had a long and healthy tradition."
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          "ref": "2012 June 11, Nate Rawlings, \"Paul Fussell\" (Obituary), Time",
          "text": "After years of teaching 18th century British literature, in 1975 he crossed from academic to public intellectual with The Great War and Modern Memory, a seminal book examining how World War I, by its scope and immense carnage, caused a disillusionment that plagued Western society for decades."
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