Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain
Stefan ColliniAbsent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain
January 1, 2006Oxford University Press, USA537 pages
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An account of 'the question of intellectuals' in 20th-century Britain, this book challenges the myth that there are no 'real' intellectuals in Britain and offers an analysis of 'the intellectual' as a concept as well as detailed discussions of influential figures such as T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, and Edward Said.
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