Intellectuals
Aesthetics, Politics, Academics
Published on 1. December 1990
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-8166-1830-9 (ISBN)
Description
Intellectuals so the arguement goes, are an endangered species. Once at the centre of crucial debates about politics and culture, today they have forsaken their proud and public-spirited independence and retreated to academia where they pursue such esoteric subjects as post-modern aethetics and post-structuralist theory. The essays in this volume disputre this diagnosis and re-examine the controversy over the role of the intellectual in society. They place intellectuals in a specific historical context and evaluate their real and potential role in the circumstances that define our public life - the media, government bureaucracy, the new social movements. In so doing, these essays seek to find a new ground for the intellectual from where to carry out the responsibilities of public opposition. The volume is divided into sections to theory, interviews and historical cases.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
645 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-1830-9 (9780816618309)
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Content
Part 1 Theory: on intellectuals, Stanley Aronowitz; toward an effective intellectual - Foucault or Gramsci?, R.Radhakrishanan; defenders of the faith and the new class, Andrew Ross. Part 2 Interviews: American intellectuals and Middle East politics, Edward W.Said; criticism, feminism, and the institution, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; women, academics, and the professional-managerial class, Barbara Ehrenreich. Part 3 Historical cases: peculiarities of the English in metanarratives of knowledge and power, Jonathan Arac; the old right and the new Jerusalem - Elizabeth Barrett Browning's intellectual practice, Deidre David; from political dissent to to scholarly integration - the Frankfurt school in American government 1942-1949, Alfons Sollner; new brooms at Fawlty towers - Colin MacCabe and Cambridge English, David Simpson; espionage as vocation - Raymond Williams' loyalties, Bruce Robbins; the scholar-warrior versus the children of Mao - Conor Cruise O'Brien in South Africa, John Higgins; making the difference - Paul de Man, fascism, and deconstruction, Christopher Prendergast; the spectacle of intellect in a media age - cultural representations and the David Abraham, Paul de Man, and Victor Farias cases, Dana Polan.