What Are Intellectuals Good For?
Publisher: Brand: Pressed Wafer; Pressed Wafer
Published: May 01, 2009
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780978515669
Description: Searching appraisals of a large gallery of twentieth-century intellectuals, including Randolph Bourne, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, Isaiah Berlin, William F. Buckley Jr., Allan Bloom, Richard Rorty, Stanley Fish, Christopher Lasch, Edward Said, Ellen Willis, and Christopher Hitchens. It also includes two wide-ranging general essays on intellectuals and politics and concludes with a speculative essay on the moral and political consequences of our species cyberevolution.