Public Intellectuals In and Out of Academe

Edited by

Silvia Nagy-Zekmi – Karyn Hollis

Villanova University

Editors

I. Truth to Power

“Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Intellectual Engagement”

Sophia A. McClennen, Penn State University

“’But Let’s Not Be Stupid Together’

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in an Age of Mass Killing”

"The Complacent Academy and Palestine"

Magid Shihade, University of California at Davis

“Henry Adams, American Intellectual”

“Imagined Community of Female Intellectuals:

Essays of Mistral, Ocampo and Castellanos”

Lois Wolfe, University of Miami

“The Artist and the Intellectual:

 Rabindranath Tagore and Transnationality”

Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Bengal, India

“Between Contestation and Complicity: Christa Wolf and Nadine Gordimer”

Susan Shin Hee Park, University of Minnesota

III. In and Out of Academe

“The New Treason of Intellectuals:

A Case of Misunderstanding and Misconstruction”

Karlis Racevskis, Ohio State University

“Affiliations, Academic Values and Corporate Intellectuals”

Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston, Victoria

“Intellectuals and the Amateur: Advice to the Outsider”