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Global Academe

Engaging Intellectual Discourse

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi

    1. Graduate Program in Hispanic Studies, Villanova University, USA

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  2. Karyn Hollis

    1. English Department, Villanova University, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, Karyn Hollis
      Pages 1-12

  3. Homo Academicus: Making the Case

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. In the Marketplace of Illusion: The Public Intellectual in a Landscape of Mediated Humanness

      • Joseph Robertson
      Pages 15-37

    3. From Rational to Relevant: What Counts as “Public” Knowledge?

      • J. Scott Andrews
      Pages 39-50

    4. From the Organic through the Specific to the Accidental: Cultural Studies and the (Potential) Proliferation of Contemporary Categories of the Academic as Public Intellectual

      • Handel K. Wright
      Pages 51-59

    5. Beyond the Specialist/Generalist Framework: Reflections on Three Decades of the Comparative History of Intellectuals Discourse

      • Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen
      Pages 61-84

    6. Homo Academicus, Quo Vadis?

      • Jan Servaes
      Pages 85-98

    7. The Enemy Within?: Intellectuals, Violence, and the “Postmodern Condition”

      • Matteo Stocchetti
      Pages 99-119

    8. Far Out! Exile, Hipsterism, and the Existential Situation of the African American Public Intellectual

      • Adebe DeRango-Adem
      Pages 121-134

    9. Language and Limitations: Toward a New Praxis of Public Intellectualism

      • Kathryn Comer, Tim Jensen
      Pages 135-148
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Addresses the representation of the economic, political, and cultural interrelations between agents involved in the process of intellectual activity. Analyzes the transformation in intellectual production and the changing role of academics themselves.

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"Contesting Richard Posner's neoliberal valorization of lawyers and politicians as the proper public intellectuals, and advancing Edward Said's advocacy of humanistic academics as providing society a dissenting voice in conflicts with authority, Nagy-Zekmi and Hollis offer a stimulating collection of essays defending them as producers of knowledge rather than as teaching professionals who merely transmit it. In suggesting that digital media and the internet offer avenues for a transnational conversation with academics that has a chance of circumventing corporate-owned media, contributors to this important discussion provide a timely forum on the vibrancy of scholarship as a refreshing, disturbing, and necessary voice in the public forum." John C. Hawley, co-editor, The Postcolonial and the Global

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate Program in Hispanic Studies, Villanova University, USA

    Silvia Nagy-Zekmi

  • English Department, Villanova University, USA

    Karyn Hollis

About the editors

SILVIA NAGY-ZEKMI Professor of Hispanic and Cultural Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Director of the Cultural Studies Program at Villanova University, USA, who has been teaching courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels on Latin American and Middle Eastern/North African Literature and literary and cultural theory.
KARYN HOLLIS Professor in the English Department at Villanova University where she directs the Concentration in Writing and Rhetoric and teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate level.

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