The Public Intellectual

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

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.

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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The Public Intellectual

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