Anxious Intellects – Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values

""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