Small

Public Intellectual

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780631231981
• ISBN-10: 0631231986
• Artikelnr.: 21827676

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"[...]this is a fascinating, engaging example of the fecundity of the human intellect." Library Journal