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