Public Intellectual

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-631-23198-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

New essays by prestigious thinkers such as Edward Said, Bruce Robbins, Jacqueline Rose, and Stefan Collini on the public role of writers and intellectuals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Small, Helen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 (David Wallace).

4. Hamlet the Intellectual (Margreta de Grazia).

5. Deaths of the Intellectual: A Comparative Autopsy (Jeremy Jennings).

6. New Art, Old Masters, and Masked Passions (Linda S. Kauffman).

7. Apathy and Accountability: The Challenge of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Intellectual 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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.