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Record Nr.

UNISA996208217403316

Titolo

The public intellectual [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Helen Small

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2002

ISBN

1-281-31066-2

9786611310660

0-470-70595-7

0-470-77596-3

0-470-77673-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SmallHelen

Disciplina

305.5/52

306.42

Soggetti

Intellectuals

Intellectual life

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings of a conference held in Sept. 2000 at St. Catherine's College, Oxford.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Public Intellectual; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals; 2 Pre-modern Intellectual Biography1; 3 Humanism, Slavery, and the Republic of Letters; 4 Hamlet the Intellectual1; 5 Deaths of the Intellectual: A Comparative Autopsy; 6 New Art, Old Masters, and Masked Passions; 7 Apathy and Accountability: The Challenge of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Intellectual in the Modern World; 8 The Sweatshop Sublime

9 "Every Fruit-juice Drinker, Nudist, Sandal-wearer . . .": Intellectuals as Other PeopleIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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