Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals In and Out of Academe
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: October 2010
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
Format: Hardcover
Table of contents: title: The function of public intellectuals in producing and disseminating knowledge is scrutinized in this volume with a preface by Henry Giroux and an introduction by the editors is dedicated to the memory of Howard Zinn, an exemplary public intellectual.; title: Table of Content:; title: Preface: Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered………………...……..........xi; title: Henry A. Giroux, NcMaster University; title: Introduction: Questions of Response/Ability:……..........................................xix; title: Public Intellectuals in the Information Age; title: Silvia Nagy-Zekmi – Karyn Hollis, Villanova University; title: I. Truth to Power; title: Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Intellectual Engagement”................................3; title: Sophia A. McClennen, Penn State University; title: The Saidian Public Intellectual: Writing between Culture and System"................25; title: Matthew Abraham, DePaul University; title: “’But Let’s Not Be Stupid Together’............................................................49; title: The Responsibility of Intellectuals in an Age of Mass Killing”; title: Daniel L. Zins, Atlanta College of Art; title: II. In and Out of Academe; title: “The New Treason of Intellectuals: ...........................................................77; title: A Case of Misunderstanding and Misconstruction”; title: Karlis Racevskis, Ohio State University; title: “Affiliations, Academic Values and Corporate Intellectuals”..............................97; title: Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston, Victoria; title: “Intellectuals and the Amateur: Advice to the Outsider”.................................113; title: John G. Nichols, Christopher Newport University; title: III. Models of Engagement; title: “The Artist and the Intellectual: ................................................................133; title: Rabindranath Tagore and Transnationality”; title: Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Bengal, India; title: “English Only: The Hegemony of Language.....................................................155; title: in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt”; title: Susan Shin Hee Park, University of Minnesota; title: “Imagined Community of Female Intellectuals:...............................................171; title: Essays of Mistral, Ocampo and Castellanos”; title: Lois Wolfe, University of Miami; title: “Between Complicity and Resistance: Christa Wolf and Nadine Gordimer” .............189; title: Lisa Bernstein, University of Maryland; title: "A Vision of the Public Intellectal, Benjamin Franklin Style".................................213; title: Anne Melfi, Georgia State University; title: Contributors.............................................................................................233