CULTR ST 719 / Public Intellectuals and Their Work: Intellectual Practices in Culture Studies and Politics

3 unit(s)

H. Giroux (cross-listed as ENGLISH 719)

This course will examine the role of a select group of academics who have become known in the dominant media in the United States as engaged public intellectuals. It will focus on the political rationale for their work, the institutional conditions that make such work possible, and how the work functions as a particular form of intellectual practice and mode of cultural politics. The work of a number of public intellectuals will be examined, including that of Cornel West, Arundhati Roy, Pierre Bourdieu, Edward Said, and Michael Dyson.