Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Introduction: The role of the intellectual
  • pt. 1. Literature and civility : liberal solutions to political conflict. Matthew Arnold, culture and the intellectual. The Habermasian public sphere
  • pt. 2. Contesting civil order with proletarian experience. The counter-public sphere. Thinking subjects
  • pt. 3. Impossible subjects : proletariats, savages, and historical materialism. The savage and the proletariat. Proletariats and urban intellectuals
  • pt. 4. Radical intellectuals and the people. Speaking for the people. Outsiders: women and radical theory.