Anxious Intellects

""Anxious Intellects" introduces fresh material and a generally new tone into the discussion of the quarrels now familiarly known as the culture wars. Readers will welcome its efforts to disabuse parties on both sides of some of their more comforting fantasies about intellectual labor and to move the debate about intellectuals and politics onto more fruitful terrain."--Ellen Rooney, Brown University

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Fundamental Confusion

Part One: Cultural Authority, Enlightenment Traditions, and Professional Anxiety

1. Publicity: Black Intellectuals as Inorganic Rerpresentatives

2. Pedagogy: Enlightened Instruction as Oppressive Discipline

3. Community: Pragmatism as a Profession of Anxiety

4. Culture: Western Traditions and Intellectual Treason

Part Two: Projected Identities, Universal Illusions, and Democratic Discourse

5. The Critic: Cultural Studies and Adorno’s Ghost

6. The Scientist: Disembodied Intellect and Popular Utopias

7. The Professional: Science Wars and Interdisciplinary Studies

Conclusion: Tattered Maps

Notes

Bibliography

Index