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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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.
Giới thiệu về tác giả
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.
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