The New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Sphere

What are the theoretical parameters that produce the category public intellectual? With essays from a range of humanities scholars, this collection responds to this question, complicating the notion of the public intellectual while arguing for its continued urgency in communities formal and informal, institutional and abstract.

Author: Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/02/2016
Pages: 202
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781137585752

About the Author
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is founder of the critical theory journal symplok? and editor and publisher of the American Book Review.

Peter Hitchcock is Professor of English at The Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York, USA.

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