How to Be an Intellectual: Essays on Criticism

Acknowledgments       Introduction       Part One: The Politics of Criticism       1. How to Be an Intellectual: Rorty v. Ross       2. The Retrospective Tenor of Recent Theory      3. The Rise of the Theory Journal       4. How Critics Became Smart       5. Publicist Intellectuals       6. The Ubiquity of Culture       7. Credibility and Criticism: On Walter Benn Michaels       8. The Statistical Turn in Literary Criticism        Part Two: Profiles in Criticism      9. Prodigal Critics: Bloom, Fish, and Greenblatt       10. A Life in Criticism: M. H. Abrams       11. Bellwether: J. Hillis Miller       12. The Political Theory License: Michael Walzer       13. The Critic as Wanderer: Terry Eagleton       14. From Cyborgs to Animals: Donna Haraway       15. Intellectuals and Politics: Stefan Collini       16. The Editor as Broker: Gordon Hutner       17. Gaga Feminism: Judith "Jack" Halberstam       18. Book Angst        Part Three: The Predicament of the University      19. The Pedagogy of Debt       20. Student Debt and the Spirit of Indenture       21. The Academic Devolution       22. The Neoliberal Bias of Higher Education       23. The University on Film       24. The Thrill Is Gone       25. Unlucky Jim       26. Academic Opportunities Unlimited        Part Four: The Personal and the Critical       27. The Pedagogy of Prison       28. Shelf Life       29. Teacher: Remembering Michael Sprinker       30. My Life as Editor       31. Other People's Words       32. Long Island Intellectual