The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope / / Joel Faflak, Jason Haslam.

• VerfasserIn: Faflak, Joel,; Haslam, Jason,
• MitwirkendeR: Allard, James Robert,; Bhatia, Nandi,; Coleman, Daniel,; Deane, Patrick,; Esterhammer, Angela,; Faflak, Joel,; Gobert, R. Darren,; Haslam, Jason,; Larson, Katherine R.,; Most, Andrea,; Polanyi, John,; Szeman, Imre,; Wright, Julia M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope brings together a number of winners of the Polanyi Prize in Literature - a group whose research constitutes a diversity of methodological approaches to the study of culture - to examine the rich but often troubled association between the concepts of the public, the intellectual (both the person and the condition), culture, and hope. The contributors probe the influence of intellectual life on the public sphere by reflecting on, analyzing, and re-imagining social and cultural identity.The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope reflects on the challenging and often vexed work of intellectualism within the public sphere by exploring how cultural materials - from foundational Enlightenment writings to contemporary, populist media spectacles - frame intellectual debates within the clear and ever-present gaze of the public writ large. These serve to illuminate how past cultures can shed light on present and future issues, as well as how current debates can reframe our approaches to older subjects.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction : Public Hopes -- PART ONE. Public Readings -- 1. "Maga-scenes": Performing Periodical Literature in the 1820s -- 2. "A Wicked Whisper": Censorship, Affect, and Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" -- 3. Sense and Sensibility: Anatomies of Hope in Romantic-Century Medical Pedagogy -- 4. "I know the difference between what I see and what I only want to see": Remembering India's Partition through Children in Cracking India -- PART TWO. Public Performances -- 5. Margaret Cavendish's Civilizing Songs -- 6. Get Happy! American Film Musicals and the Psychopathology of Hope -- 7. To Be (Or Not To Be): Ernst Lubitsch's Irrepressible Theatrical Liberalism -- 8. Inglourious Criticism, Basterd Fantasies: Rancière, Tarantino, and the Intellectual Spectacle of Hope -- PART THREE. Public Matters -- 9. Beyond the Book: Reading as Public Intellectual Activity -- 10. The Political Nature of Things: David Suzuki and Narratives of Change -- 11. The Immaterial Matters -- 12. Higher Education and the End(s) of Time -- List of Contributors -- Index