Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline

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Author(s): Richard A. Posner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2001

Language: English
Pages: 418

Title Page......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
I /
General Theoretical and Empirical Analysis......Page 24
1 / Setting the Stage......Page 26
2 / The Market for Public Intellectuals......Page 50
3 / Care and Insight......Page 92
4 / Prediction and Influence......Page 137
5 / More Public, Less Intellectual......Page 176
II /
Genre Studies......Page 230
6 / The Literary Critic as Public Intellectual......Page 232
7 / Political Satire......Page 256
8 / The Jeremiah School......Page 290
9 / The Public Philosopher......Page 329
10 / The Public Intellectual and the Law......Page 368
Conclusion / Improving the Market......Page 396
Acknowledgments......Page 408
Index......Page 410