Global Academe: Engaging Intellectual Discourse

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
In the Marketplace of Illusion: The Public Intellectual in a Landscape of Mediated Humanness....Pages 15-37
From Rational to Relevant: What Counts as “Public” Knowledge?....Pages 39-50
From the Organic through the Specific to the Accidental: Cultural Studies and the (Potential) Proliferation of Contemporary Categories of the Academic as Public Intellectual....Pages 51-59
Beyond the Specialist/Generalist Framework: Reflections on Three Decades of the Comparative History of Intellectuals Discourse....Pages 61-84
Homo Academicus, Quo Vadis?....Pages 85-98
The Enemy Within?: Intellectuals, Violence, and the “Postmodern Condition”....Pages 99-119
Far Out! Exile, Hipsterism, and the Existential Situation of the African American Public Intellectual....Pages 121-134
Language and Limitations: Toward a New Praxis of Public Intellectualism....Pages 135-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Should Philosophers Become Public Intellectuals?....Pages 151-161
The Ethics of Public Intellectual Work....Pages 163-177
Multilingual Academics in a Global World and the Burden of Responsibility....Pages 179-188
International Perspectives on Speaking Truth to Power....Pages 189-198
Imagined Community Service: Queering Narratives of Place and Time in Service Learning....Pages 199-214