TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shatz,Adam
TI  - Writers and missionaries: essays on the radical imagination 
SN  - 9781804290590
AV  - HM728 .S435 2023
U1  - 305.5/52 23/eng/20230110
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Intellectuals
KW  - Philosophers
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Radicalism
KW  - Loneliness
KW  - Essays
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes index
N2  - "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 Lévi-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"--
ER  -