This book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and

In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political o

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

This book addresses the ways in which the figure of the intellectuals and their relationship to the public has been theorized through the conceptualizations of

Against a backdrop of a hegemonic, global economic arrangement that has spawned astounding disparities in wealth, this book foregrounds seventeen intellectuals