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The term “Tui” is a neologism invented by the German theatre practitioner and poet Bertolt Brecht in the 1930s in a satire on intellectuals in the German Empire and Weimar Republic. The designation “Tui” stands for a class of intellectuals who subject their thinking to the economic laws of a capitalist society. A Tui is an intellectual who sells his or her abilities and opinions as a commodity in the marketplace and thereby uses them to support the dominant ideology of an oftentime extremly oppressive society. TUIs adapt to the requirements of the market (i.e., neoliberalism) without any authenticity or integrity. These “academic prostitutes” orient themseleves, their character and their thoughts to the perceived requirements of “the market” in order to obtain personal career advantages (see also Prof. Erich Fromm on “The opportunistic marketable\/salable character<\/a>“). Such thinking is no longer “free” but rather a “renting out” of the intellect (in the same way a prostititute sells her body, TUIs sell their intellect for money). Cognitive abilities and opinions are sold. Neoliberal careerism. Misinterpreted social-Darwinism. Integrity and authenticity fall by the wayside.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Quotes by Berthold Brecht<\/div>
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He who does not know the truth is merely a fool. But he who knows it and calls it a lie is a criminal.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Inventions for people are suppressed, inventions against them are promoted.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Bank robbery: an initiative of dilettantes. True professionals found a bank.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Writers cannot write as fast as governments make wars; for writing requires thinking.<\/p><\/blockquote>

He who says A does not have to say B. He can also realise that A was wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>

First comes the food, then comes the morale.<\/p><\/blockquote>

No advance is as difficult as the return to reason.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

Wilhelm von Humboldt (who could be called the father of the university educational system) expressed this idea succinctly in 1791:<\/p>\n

“What is not chosen by man himself, what he is not even restricted and guided in, that does not pass into his being, that remains eternally alien to him, that he does not actually perform with human strength, but with mechanical skill.
\n…If, however, a man merely acts on foreign demands and instructions, we may admire what he does, but we despise what he is.”<\/p>\n

Original German: “Was nicht von dem Menschen selbst gew\u00e4hlt, worin er auch nur einge schr\u00e4nkt und geleitet wird, das geht nicht in sein Wesen \u00fcber, das bleibt ihm ewig fremd, das verrichtet er nicht eigentlich mit menschlicher Kraft, sondern mit mechanischer Fertigkeit.
\n…Wenn aber ein Mensch lediglich auf fremde Forderungen und Anweisungen handelt, so m\u00f6gen wir bewundern, was er tut, aber wir verachten, was er ist.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cf. Prof. Erich Fromm “Haben oder Sein (To be or to have)<\/p>\n

See also:<\/p>\n

Knopf, J.<\/span>. (1984<\/span>). Bertolt Brechts Hauspostille (1927)<\/span>. In Brecht-Handbuch: Theater, Lyrik, Prosa, Schriften<\/div>\n

(pp. 516\u2013538). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler
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\u201cBrechts bekannteste gedichtsammlung hat eine au\u00dferordentlich komplizierte und langwierige entstehungsgeschichte, die in f\u00fcnf gr\u00f6\u00dfere phasen einteilbar ist. die auswahl und die zusammenstellung der gedichte hat sich dabei immer wieder ge\u00e4ndert, wie auch einzelne gedichte umgeschrieben wurden. im folgenden kann lediglich ein \u00fcberblick gegeben werden.\u201d<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n

According to Clark (2006):<\/p>\n

… the critique of intellectuals which Brecht developed… around the notion of \u2018Tuismus\u2019 engages a model of the public intellectual in which the self-image of the artist and thinker as a socially and politically engaged person corresponded to the expectations of the public. Partisan without being bound to a party, independent of official institutions yet experienced in surviving within institutions, prepared to entertain risks and undertake unconventional experiments: this was how Brecht accommodated a world which he envisioned as changeable. His antagonistic worldview fed on crisis and found its most productive, creative impulse in the escalation of contradictions.<\/em><\/p>\n

Brecht routinely referred to the members of the Frankfurt School, particularly Theodor Adorno, as “Tuis”. The corresponding term “Tuism” describes the theory and practice of the Tui-intellectual.<\/p>\n