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The first full-length account of "the question of intellectuals" in twentieth-century Britain. Leading intellectual historian and cultural commentator Stefan Collini challenges the myth that there are no "real" intellectuals in Britain and offers a persuasive 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.

In the book born from his Oxford Ford Lectures, Stefan Collini challenges the historical assumptions at work in twentieth-century English literary criticism, showing how the work of critics was bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historical change, the interpretation of the national past, and the work of earlier scholars.

In the book born from his Oxford Ford Lectures, Stefan Collini challenges the historical assumptions at work in twentieth-century English literary criticism, showing how the work of critics was bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historical change, the interpretation of the national past, and the work of earlier scholars.

Leading international critic and historian on this subject, Stefan Collini, analyses what is happening to our universities.

A series of insightful and accessible essays from one of the most brilliant essayists of our time~Illuminates the life and work of leading twentieth-century writers and thinkers in a brief compass~Includes essays on T.S. Eliot, Graham Greene, J.B. Priestley, C.S. Lewis, Kingsley Amis, Nikolaus Pevsner, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Christopher Hitchens, and Michael Ignatieff~Engages with current assumptions about biography, criticism, and the language of...

The first full-length account of 'the question of intellectuals' in twentieth-century Britain. Leading intellectual historian and cultural commentator Stefan Collini challenges the myth that there are no 'real' intellectuals in Britain, offering a persuasive 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.

This imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of intellectuals as public moralists and suggests ways in which their more formal political theory rested upon habits of response and evaluation that were deeply embedded in wider social attitudes and aesthetic judgments. Collini examines ...

A series of essays exploring aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present, focussing on critics and historians who wrote for a non-specialist readership, and on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach that readership.

Matthew Arnold (1822-88), the leading man-of-letters of the Victorian age, has been the decisive influence on modern thinking about literature and criticism and his work has become an inescapable cultural reference point today. In this stylish and entertaining book Stefan Collini examines the whole range of Arnold's literary, social, and religious criticism as well as his poetry, placing them in the context of the major intellectual controvers...

This is an accessible collection of essays by a leading historian and critic. Subjects include the idea of "the national past, " the historian as social critic, the claims of Cultural Studies, the nature of academic "research, " the function of the literary biography, and the lives and ideas of such figures as Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, R. H. Tawney, Isaiah Berlin, Raymond Williams, and ...

In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini, one of the most brilliant essayists of our time, explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain in the twentieth century.

A contemporary manifesto in defence of our universities, written in a funny, polemical and charged style and taking no prisoners from the government to private companies. At a time of perceived crisis in our universities, this book defends their cultural, economic and humanitarian value.

Two volumes containing new essays by leading scholars in modern British intellectual history.

Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes contain major new essays by almost all of its leading proponents. The contributors examine the history of British ideas over the past two centuries from a number of perspectives that together constitute a major new overview of the subject. History, Religion, and Culture begins with eighteenth-centur...

Economy, Polity and Society and its companion volume History, Religion and Culture aim to bring together new essays by many of the leading intellectual historians of the period. The essays in Economy, Polity and Society begin by addressing aspects of the eighteenth-century attempt, particularly in the work of Adam Smith, to come to grips with the nature of "commercial society" and its distinctive notions of the self, of political liberty, and ...

Inspirerend betoog over de grote waarde van de universiteit. De universiteit is sterk in discussie, niet alleen in Nederland, maar wereldwijd. Er zijn meer universiteiten dan ooit, maar tegelijkertijd heerst er toenemende verwarring over hun doel en een groeiende scepsis over hun waarde voor de samenleving. 'Waar is de universiteit voor nodig?' biedt een levendig en overtuigend betoog om geheel opnieuw de rol van de universiteit te doordenken...

The leading commentator asks what is the future of our universities.

In this work, three historians of ideas examine the forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain to develop a 'science of politics'.

Two volumes containing new essays by leading scholars in modern British intellectual history.

Examines the common assertion that to criticize someone else's deeply held ideas or beliefs is inherently offensive. This title argues that this idea is reinforced by two of the central requirements of an enlightened global politics: treating all people with equal respect and trying to avoid words that compound existing social disadvantages.