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 Adornos Ghost  

6. The Scientist: Disembodied Intellect and Popular Utopias  

7. The Professional: Science Wars and Interdisciplinary Studies  

Conclusion: Tattered Maps  

Notes  

Bibliography  

Index  

“This exciting account touches on the most difficult questions in American public discourse.”—Library Journal

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“This exciting account touches on the most difficult questions in American public discourse.”—Library Journal

“By scrutinizing the ideal of objectivity so revered by intellectuals, Michael brings us face-to-face with our own personal and possibly skewed notions of truth—an insight crucial to living in our multicultural, multifaceted society.”—Nicole Duclos, Utne Reader

“Every one of these chapters is lively and valuable, and shows Michael’s firmness and subtlety of mind, his dual commitments to expressive clarity and disciplinary complexity, especially when acting as an English professor leading an interdisciplinary tour. . . . Analyses of intellectual bad faith in liberatory pedagogy, utopian cultural studies, and the fascination with public-sphere physicist Stephen Hawking are particular standouts.”—William J. Maxwell, Politics and Culture

“The debate that has followed the September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre provides a fascinating case study of intellectuals and political mobilization . . . . As John Michael notes, so much has been said about intellectuals, and yet even the terms of the debate about the identity, function, and future of intellectuals are radically unclear. One of the virtues of Michael’s Anxious Intellects is that it makes clearer the contours of the terrain of discussion about progressive intellectuals. . . . Michael’s book is a wonderful post-post-modern reminder of the place and dilemmas of intellectuals . . . .”—Chamsy El-Ojeili, New Political Science

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