The Public Intellectual

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.