The Public Intellectual
Published on 8. May 2008
248 pages
978-0-470-77673-5 (ISBN)
Description
New essays by prestigious thinkers such as Edward Said, Bruce Robbins, Jacqueline Rose, and Stefan Collini on the public role of writers and intellectuals.
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"[...]this is a fascinating, engaging example of the fecundity of the human intellect." Library JournalMore details
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Helen Small
The Public Intellectual
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07/2002
Blackwell Publishers
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Helen Small is Fellow in English Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. She is currently the holder of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2001-2004), and is writing a book on the philosophy and literature of aging.
Content
List of Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction (Helen Small).
1. The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals (Edward W.Said).
2. Pre-modern Intellectual Biography (Rita Copeland).
3. Humanism, Slavery, and the Republic of Letters (DavidWallace).
4. Hamlet the Intellectual (Margreta de Grazia).
5. Deaths of the Intellectual: A Comparative Autopsy (JeremyJennings).
6. New Art, Old Masters, and Masked Passions (Linda S.Kauffman).
7. Apathy and Accountability: The Challenge of SouthAfrica's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to theIntellectual in the Modern World (Jacqueline Rose).
8. The Sweatshop Sublime (Bruce Robbins).
9. "Every Fruit-Juice Drinker, Nudist, Sandal-Wearer...":Intellectuals as Other People (Stefan Collini).
Index.
