
Critical Intellectuals on Writing
State University of New York Press
Published on 17. July 2003
Book
Hardback
215 pages
978-0-7914-5841-9 (ISBN)
Description
A fascinating look at how some of the world's most eminent scholars conceive of their own relationship with writing and with the work of being a critical intellectual.
Writing is central to the work of all intellectuals, yet any given scholar's relationship to writing is a uniquely personal one. Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham bring together some of the world's leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine how they conceive of their own relationship to writing and to the work of being a critical intellectual. Using excerpts from interviews, originally published in JAC, each scholar's thoughts are revealed about writing habits, how writing relates to intellectual work, and the politics of intellectual work.
Included are excerpts of interviews with the following: Gloria Anzaldua, Mary Field Belenky, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Donald Davidson, Jacques Derrida, Michael Eric Dyson, Stanley Fish, Paulo Freire, Clifford Geertz, Henry Giroux, Stuart Hall, Donna Haraway, Sandra Harding, bell hooks, Luce Irigaray, Ernesto Laclau, Jean-Francois Lyotard, J. Hillis Miller, Chantal Mouffe, Avital Ronell, Richard Rorty, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jane Tompkins, Stephen Toulmin, and Slavoj Z?izuek.
Writing is central to the work of all intellectuals, yet any given scholar's relationship to writing is a uniquely personal one. Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham bring together some of the world's leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine how they conceive of their own relationship to writing and to the work of being a critical intellectual. Using excerpts from interviews, originally published in JAC, each scholar's thoughts are revealed about writing habits, how writing relates to intellectual work, and the politics of intellectual work.
Included are excerpts of interviews with the following: Gloria Anzaldua, Mary Field Belenky, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Donald Davidson, Jacques Derrida, Michael Eric Dyson, Stanley Fish, Paulo Freire, Clifford Geertz, Henry Giroux, Stuart Hall, Donna Haraway, Sandra Harding, bell hooks, Luce Irigaray, Ernesto Laclau, Jean-Francois Lyotard, J. Hillis Miller, Chantal Mouffe, Avital Ronell, Richard Rorty, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jane Tompkins, Stephen Toulmin, and Slavoj Z?izuek.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-5841-9 (9780791458419)
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Critical Intellectuals on Writing
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Persons
Gary A. Olson is Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg. Lynn Worsham is Professor of English at the University of South Florida. Olson is most recently the author of Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric, published by SUNY Press and Worsham is most recently the coeditor (with Sidney I. Dobrin and Gary A. Olson) of The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse, also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Introduction
Gloria Anzaldua
Mary Field Belenky
Homi Bhabha
Judith Butler
Noam Chomsky
Donald Davidson
Jacques Derrida
Michael Eric Dyson
Stanley Fish (1991)
Stanley Fish (2000)
Paulo Freire
Clifford Geertz
Henry Giroux
Stuart Hall
Donna Haraway
Sandra Harding
bell hooks
Luce Irigaray
Ernesto Laclau
Jean-Francois Lyotard
J. Hillis Miller
Chantal Mouffe
Avital Ronell
Richard Rorty
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Jane Tompkins
Stephen Toulmin
Slavoj Zizek
Index
Gloria Anzaldua
Mary Field Belenky
Homi Bhabha
Judith Butler
Noam Chomsky
Donald Davidson
Jacques Derrida
Michael Eric Dyson
Stanley Fish (1991)
Stanley Fish (2000)
Paulo Freire
Clifford Geertz
Henry Giroux
Stuart Hall
Donna Haraway
Sandra Harding
bell hooks
Luce Irigaray
Ernesto Laclau
Jean-Francois Lyotard
J. Hillis Miller
Chantal Mouffe
Avital Ronell
Richard Rorty
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Jane Tompkins
Stephen Toulmin
Slavoj Zizek
Index