Recently added articles from Studies in the Humanities:
Introduction: twentieth-century writers as public intellectuals.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Public intellectuals operate within a field of forces marked by multiple tensions, including those between theory and practice, between elitism and mass appeal, and between academic specialization and generalist inclusiveness. As for the latter tension, although intellectuals usually excel ...
Virginia Woolf & Vera Brittain: pacifism and the gendered politics of public intellectualism.
Dec 01, 2008; ... A recent debate spurred by the publication of Richard A. Posner's Public Intellectuals (2001, 2003)--though not a matter with which he concerns himself--centers on questions of authority and valuation: that is, how one determines which cultural figures qualify as "public intellectuals," ...
Storm Jameson: artist, activist, and "Cassandra".
Dec 01, 2008; ... The fate of artists like Storm Jameson (1891-1986) recalls Chaucer's House of Fame, where, depending on the prevailing wind, the names of people inscribed on different sides of a rock are clearly visible or obscured: her name would be one of those covered with moss. For, as Walter Benjamin ...
Rebecca West as artist and intellectual: roaming outside the herd.
Dec 01, 2008; ... What should a public intellectual look like? How should a public intellectual sound? What public should the public intellectual address? I'm not sure anyone has couched a discussion of public intellectuals in quite these terms, which are those of a biographer. A critic might consider the ...
Ayn Rand as public intellectual: notes from the margin.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Most of today's "intellectuals"--the statist collectivists, the worshippers of "the masses," the servants of "the people"--are savagely antagonistic to the people's standards and to every authentic, popular value in art. (1) For years, I have been arguing that the general ...