Public intellectual's public intellectuals
Steven Johnson posted the syllabus for his course on public intellectuals. Here's the distilled reading list:
- Said, Representations Of The Intellectual
- Chomsky, 9-11
- Frank, What’s The Matter With Kansas
- Buckley, God And Man At Yale
- Johnson, Everything Bad Is Good For You
- Orwell, “Inside The Whale.”
- Hitchens, from Why Orwell Matters
- Hertzberg columns from The New Yorker
- Buckley, God And Man At Yale
- Bloom, from Closing Of The American Mind
- E. O. Wilson, from Sociobiology
- Gould, from The Mismeasure Of Man
- Gleick, from Chaos
- Jacobs, from Death And Life Of Great American Cities
- Putnam, “The Strange Disappearance of Public America.”
- Postman, from Amusing Ourselves To Death.
- Sontag, “Notes On Camp.”
- Gladwell, “The Tipping Point”, “The Naked Face”
- Wright, “Two Years Later, A Thousand Years Ago,” “The Big Idea.”
- Excerpts from Andrewsullivan.com;
- longtail.com;
- stevenberlinjohnson.com.