Public Intellectuals : : A Study of Decline, With a New Preface and Epilogue /

Public Intellectuals : : A Study of Decline, With a New Preface and Epilogue / / Richard A. Posner.

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In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment--Richard Posner charts the decline of a venerable institution that included worthies from Socrates to John Dewey. Level...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Posner, Richard A.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2001
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (456 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface, 2003
  • Introduction
  • Part One: General Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
  • 1 Setting the Stage
  • 2 The Market for Public Intellectuals
  • 3 Care and Insight
  • 4 Prediction and Influence
  • 5 More Public, Less Intellectual
  • Part Two: Genre Studies
  • 6 The Literary Critic as Public Intellectual
  • 7 Political Satire
  • 8 The Jeremiah School
  • 9 The Public Philosopher
  • 10 The Public Intellectual and the Law
  • Conclusion: Improving the Market
  • Epilogue, 2003
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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