Global Academe: Engaging Public Intellectual Discourse

Edited by Silvia Nagy-Zekmi and Karyn Hollis

 

     Preface: The Location of Public Intellectual Discourse                   BACK

               The Editors

 

     I. Homo Academicus: Making the Case

Expendable Buddhas, Thinker-Exemplars and Fellow Travelers. The Place of the Public Intellectual in a Landscape of Mediated Humanness

Joseph Robertson, Villanova University

 

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

J. Scott Andrews, Penn State University

 

From the Organic to the Accidental: Cultural Studies and the Proliferation of Contemporary Categories of the Academic as Public Intellectual

Handel K. Wright, University of British Columbia

 

Beyond the Specialist/Generalist Framework? Reflections on Three Decades of the Comparative History of Intellectual Discourse

Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen, University of Oslo

 

Homo Academicus, Quo Vadis?

Jan Servaes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

The Enemy Within? Intellectuals and Violence in the ‘Postmodern Condition’

Matteo Stocchetti, Arcada University, Helsinki

 

Far Out! : Exile, Hipsterism, and the Existential Situation of the African-American Public Intellectual

Adebe DeRango-Adem, New York Applied Research Center

 

Language and Limitations: Toward a New Praxis of Public Intellectualism

Kathryn Comer and Timothy Jensen, Ohio State University

 

     II. Case Studies

Should Philosophers Become Public Intellectuals?

Sam Rickless, University of California, San Diego

 

The Ethics of Public Intellectual Work

David Beard, University of Minnesota

 

International Perspectives on Speaking Truth to Power

D. Ray Heisey, Kent State University and Ehsan Shaghasemi, University of Tehran

 

Multilingual Academics in a Global World and the Burden of Responsibility

Lahcen Ezzaher, University of Northern Colorado

 

Imagined Community Service: Queering Narratives of Place and Time in Service-Learning

Amin Emika, West Virginia University