Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Transformations of the Public Intellectual; 2 Conscientious Chronicler; 3 Eastern European Voices; 4 Public Man as Actor; 5 A Protean Public Figure; 6 Public Intellectuals from Brussels; 7 Responsible Satire; 8 Popular Fiction; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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This book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their assumed persona thereby reads the world as a book - interpreting it and offering alternative scenarios for understanding it