The Public Intellectual
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: September 1, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780631231981
First sentence: Almost exactly 20 years ago, The Nation magazine convened a congress of writers in New York by putting out notices for the event and, as I understood the tactic, leaving open the question of who was a writer and why he or she qualified to attend.