Intellectuals: Aesthetics, Politics, Academics
Intellectuals: Aesthetics, Politics, Academics
by Bruce Robbins
University of Minnesota Press, 1990
Paper: 978-0-8166-1831-6
Library of Congress Classification HM213.I545 1990
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.552
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: The Grounding of Intellectuals
- Part I.
- Theory
- Toward an Effective Intellectual: Foucault or Gramsci?
- Defenders of the Faith and the New Class
- Part II.
- Interviews
- American Intellectuals and Middle East Politics
- Criticism, Feminism, and the Institution
- Spivak,
Gayatri Chakravorty
- The Professional-Managerial Class Revisited
- Part III.
- Historical Cases
- Peculiarities of (the) English in the Metanarrative(s) of Knowledge and Power
- The Old Right and the New Jerusalem: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Intellectual Practice
- From Political Dissent to Scholarly Integration: The Frankfurt School in American Government, 1942–49
- New Brooms at Fawlty Towers: Colin MacCabe and Cambridge English
- Espionage as Vocation: Raymond Williams's Loyalties
- The Scholar-Warrior versus the Children of Mao: Conor Cruise O'Brien in South Africa
- Making the Difference: Paul de Man, Fascism, and Deconstruction
- The Spectacle of Intellect in a Media Age: Cultural Representations and the David Abraham, Paul de Man, and Victor Farías Cases