Essays on politics, power, and culture from one of America\'s most eminent critics In Only a Voice , George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity\'s promise of progress and the sobering reality of our present day through studies of the most influential public intellectuals of our time.
Every writer, Scialabba writes, faces the choice of whether to tilt at the state and capital or ignore them - and the world now is too dire not to choose the former..
Lawrence, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ellen Willis, and Noam Chomsky-Scialabba tours western intellectual history to find that no matter the stakes, critical thought remains a necessary precondition for politics.
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Drawing together a diverse group of thinkers, artists, activists, and philosophers-including Edward Said, D.
In Scialabba\'s hands, literary criticism becomes a powerful tool for expressing political passion and demonstrating the generative power of argument and an inquisitive mind.
Essays on politics, power, and culture from one of America\'s most eminent critics In Only a Voice , George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity\'s promise of progress and the sobering reality of our present day through studies of the most influential public intellectuals of our time
