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9780631231974

The Public Intellectual

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631231974

  • ISBN10:

    0631231978

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-09-13
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(18)
Helen Small
The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals
19(21)
Edward W. Said
Pre-modern Intellectual Biography
40(22)
Rita Copeland
Humanism, Slavery, and the Republic of Letters
62(27)
David Wallace
Hamlet the Intellectual
89(21)
Margreta de Grazia
Deaths of the Intellectual: A Comparative Autopsy
110(21)
Jeremy Jennings
New Art, Old Masters, and Masked Passions
131(28)
Linda S. Kauffman
Apathy and Accountability: The Challenge of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Intellectual in the Modern World
159(20)
Jacqueline Rose
The Sweatshop Sublime
179(24)
Bruce Robbins
``Every Fruit-juice Drinker, Nudist, Sandal-wearer...'': Intellectuals as Other People
203(21)
Stefan Collini
Index 224

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