Concept of the intellectual

This research deals with the concept of the intellectual in the process of approaching the understanding of the surrounding problems of methodology and semantics. Through 4 addresses start with the question of who is the intellectual?
Such a question raises a long debate that may not end easily because of a number of cognitive and ideological differences. By tracing the historical context of the term to an agreed definition. The second headings relate to the models of the intellectual starting with Gramsci's talk and the additions of contemporary critics, especially through the contemporary Arabic novel. Where the models of the intellectual take a deeper dimension when the focus is on its effectiveness as a product of knowledge and adopt a position and vision. Hence the apparition of divisions based on the relationship to power, there is a cultured authority and another against the authority.
And the third title of this study presents a growing issue with the post-modernist movement demanding reconsideration of the role of the intellectual and his speech and effectiveness and ideas and projects.

And divided opinions between those who call to make his role as an alternative to the role of the social critic with visions of change, and another authorizes calls affecting the presence of the same intellectual, saying the end of the intellectual or his death and this case is the fourth title of this study.