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What Are Intellectuals Good For?
George Scialabba
Collection of essays
Pressed Wafer
May 2009
On Sale: May 1, 2009
272 pages ISBN: 0978515668 EAN: 9780978515669 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
What Are Intellectuals Good For? contains searching
appraisals of a large gallery of twentieth-century
intellectuals, including Randolph Bourne, Dwight Macdonald,
Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, Isaiah Berlin, William F.
Buckley Jr., Allan Bloom, Richard Rorty, Stanley Fish,
Christopher Lasch, Edward Said, Ellen Willis, and
Christopher Hitchens. It also includes two wide-ranging
general essays on intellectuals and politics and concludes
with a speculative essay on the moral and political
con-sequences of our species cyber-evolution. George
Scialabba, a book columnist for the Boston Globe and
frequent contributor to the Boston Review, Dissent, the
American Prospect, and the Nation, is admired by a small
circle of discerning readers. What Are Intellectuals Good
For?, his second essay collection, brings his eloquent and
modest (Christopher Hitchens) voice to a larger audience.
Mark Oppenheimer, a columnist for the Huffington Post,
included Scialabba s first collection, Divided Mind (2006),
in a list of Great Books the Pulitzers Missed. Scott
McLemee, the popular Intellectual Affairs columnist of
InsideHigherEd, profiled him at length and has contributed a
foreword.
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