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...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Moi Interview 65 Jeffrey J. Williams What Is an Intellectual Woman?: An Interview with Toril Moi In 1985 Toril Moi caught the attention of the theory world with her...

...Liu Kang This article assesses the Chinese intellectual scene through sketching four groups of Chinese intellectuals: state strategists, the (politically) scandalous, professionals, and the weibo (microblogging) opinion leaders. The Chinese intellectual scene today is filled with excitement...

...Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Works Cited Allen Peter . “The Meanings of ‘An Intellectual.’” University of Toronto Quarterly 55 . 4 ( Summer 1986 ). Feuer Lewis S. “The Political Linguistics of ‘Intellectual’ 1898-1918.” Survey 1...

...Francescomaria Tedesco In the interview that follows, Timothy Brennan argues that intellectual history is a dimension missing from most cultural theory. He suggests that this weakens theory, since intellectual history is not simply the frame for arguments but part of the substance of statements. He...

...Joseph Darda In the post-New Deal era, the social location of the intellectual became one of paradox and anxiety. Understood as integral to a cultural center, organizing society through the dissemination of ideas, intellectual work emerged as the unlocatable nucleus of US culture. Three recent...

.... Complicating standard accounts of deconstruction and rhetorical reading as simply antimimetic, Miller acknowledges the centrality of this ancient concept to his intellectual development and to major turns in literary theory as well: his early engagement with New Criticism and phenomenology in the 1950s, his...

..., vision, and speculation—turns into an intellectual and yet material and physical power. Such a literacy would be an impersonal kind of literacy, a literacy for which poetics, mathematics, and the sciences are inextricably linked in the domain of what is here called—in distinction to atom time—atomic time...

... and intellectual protocols. The academic humanist Left's promotion of theory, for instance, facilitated the formation of the “university” as a theater for culture war conflicts, shifting attention inside and outside the academy away from underlying changes in capitalism. Works Cited Behrent Michael C...

... in which the not-happy subject is prevented from forming any kind of investment—thereby becomes a way to envision a form of praxis particular to the not-happy subject. The essay also suggests that greater attention to the need for critical “triage” when analyzing the relative intellectual recuperability...

...Tom Moylan Since the turn of this century, engaged intellectuals have argued for the refunctioning of a utopian process within actually existing politics. While I accept the caveats about utopianism's ineffectiveness or co-optation that are the bedrock of the cold stream of the Marxist tradition...

... analysis—offers an exemplary case of an other side to the study of culture that is the verso of both proper disciplined intellectual labors and the imaginary Other of cultural studies. Lacan was long interested in the productive possibilities of mathematical formalizations. I argue that it is precisely...

... or sixty years. Smith describes her foray into feminist activism in the 1960s; her love of English poetry but disaffection with the intellectual provincialism of English departments in the 1970s; her increased occupation during the 1980s and 1990s with problems of aesthetics, linguistics, and value theory...

... and culturally in the Chinese context. And large-scale translation in the 1920s and 1930s played an important role in constructing the modern Chinese literary canon. This literary and cultural translation has also led to serious debate among China’s intellectuals. The great achievements in modern Chinese...

... that the responsibility of intellectuals is to engage in worldly issues, politics, and social affairs through writing, teaching, and interpretation of all forms of “texts.” In his recent book Cloning Terror , he observes that the war on terror had the effect of enhancing the terrorist program, paradoxically producing...

...Katie Hogan © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Katie Hogan What Is Criticism on Academic Labor For? There is a new criticism of academic labor, advocating both respect for intellectual work and equitable material conditions for students and faculty. This latest strand of criticism...

...Gerald Graff © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Gerald Graff Credo of a Teacher My credo as a teacher: do whatever it takes to turn students into compulsively analytic intellectuals like yourself. It’s never mattered to me what kind of intellectuals my students become—Left...

...Timothy Burke © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Works Cited Bauerlein Mark . `` Liberal Groupthink is Anti-Intellectual .'' Chronicle of Higher Education . 12 November 2004 . B 6 - 7 . Bérubé Michael . What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics...

..., and the Critic . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard UP , 1983 . Williams Jeffrey J. “Edward Said's Romance of the Amateur Intellectual.” The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 17 : 4 ( 1995 ): 397 - 410 . Davis 125...

... selected aspects and historical manifestations of the multifaceted phenomenon of academic culture wars, concluding with a brief overview of the individual contributions. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Virginia Tech 2024 academic culture wars intellectual history history...

... Imarisha The thesis of this article is a proposition that extends beyond its pages and directly concerns the life of its author. It is thus a proposition that makes me nervous. My thesis proceeds from the insistence that creativecritical practice take heed of the material, intellectual, and institutional...