Writers and missionaries : essays on the radical imagination / Adam Shatz.

Author/creator Shatz, Adam author.
Format Book
PublicationLondon ; New York : Verso, 2023.
Copyright Datecu2023
Description358 pages ; 24 cm
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Abstract "In this incisive series of intellectual portraits, Adam Shatz, one of the Anglophone world's foremost essayists, charts the role of the committed intellectual. Through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, he shows how writers bind themselves to the project embodied in their work In a moving portrait of Edward Said, Shatz uncovers the profound role the cause of Palestinian liberation had on his life and writing. And via thinkers as diverse as Fouad Ajami, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Claude L̐uevi-Strauss, as well as the novelists Michel Houllebecq and Richard Wright, he explores the struggle authors face in reconciling writing with politics, thought with ethical commitments"-- Provided by publisher.
General noteIncludes index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Shatz, Adam. Writers and missionaries London : Verso Books, 2023 9781804290644
Genre/formEssays.
Genre/formHistory.
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LCCN 2022058208
ISBN9781804290590
ISBN1804290599
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