FALL-WINTER 2013 - University of Toronto Press Publishing

The Public Intellectualand the Culture of HopeEdited by Joel Faflak and Jason HaslamForeword by John PolanyiThe Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope brings together a number ofwinners of the Polanyi Prize in Literature – a group whose research constitutesa diversity of methodological approaches to the study of culture – to examinethe rich but often troubled association between the concepts of the public,the intellectual (both the person and the condition), culture, and hope. Thecontributors probe the influence of intellectual life on the public sphere byreflecting on, analyzing, and re-imagining social and cultural identity.The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope reflects on the challenging andoften vexed work of intellectualism within the public sphere by exploring howcultural materials – from foundational Enlightenment writings to contemporary,populist media spectacles – frame intellectual debates within the clear and everpresentgaze of the public writ large. These serve to illuminate how past culturescan shed light on present and future issues, as well as how current debates canreframe our approaches to older subjects.Joel Faflak is an associate professor in the Department of English at WesternUniversity.Jason Haslam is an associate professor in the Department of English atDalhousie University.LITERARY STUDIESApprox. 288 pp / 6 x 9 / September 20133 illustrationsCloth 978-1-4426-4184-6$60.00 (£41.99) EeBook 978-1-4426-6575-0 $60.00Literary Studies / Cultural StudiesContributorsJames Robert AllardNandi BhatiaDaniel ColemanPatrick DeaneAngela EsterhammerJoel FaflakR. Darren GobertJason HaslamKatherine R. LarsonAndrea MostJohn PolanyiImre SzemanJulia M. Wrightutppublishing.comCo-edited by Jason Haslamand Julia M. Wright:Captivating SubjectsWriting Confinement, Citizenship, andNationhood in the Nineteenth Century978-0-8020-8968-7$64.00 / 200543