Intellectuals: Aesthetics, Politics, AcademicsBruce Robbins U of Minnesota Press, 1990 - 376 pages A valuable counter to the Reagan-Bush-Bennett-Bloom backlash, these essays (by many of the usual left suspects--Aronowitz, Said, Ehrenreich, et al.) analyze and evaluate the situatedness of intellectuals with respect to the media, government bureaucracy, the university, and the Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
On Intellectuals Stanley Aronowitz | 3 |
Foucault or Gramsci? | 57 |
Defenders of the Faith and the New Class Andrew | 101 |
American Intellectuals and Middle East Politics | 135 |
Criticism Feminism and the Institution | 153 |
The ProfessionalManagerial Class Revisited Barbara | 173 |
Peculiarities of the English in the Metanarratives | 189 |
Colin MacCabe | 245 |
Raymond Williamss Loyalties | 273 |
Paul de Man Fascism | 319 |
Cultural | 343 |
Contributors | 365 |
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