Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain

Introduction: The Question of Intellectuals PART ONE: THE TERMS OF THE QUESTION 1. The History of a Word 2. A Matter of Definition PART TWO: FONDER HEARTS 3. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes 4. Of Light and Leading 5. Highbrows and Other Aliens 6. The Long 1950s I: Happy Families 7. The Long 1950s II: Brave Causes 8. From New Left to Old Chestnut PART THREE: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 9. In their Natonal Habitat 10. Greener Grass: Letters from America 11. The Peculiarities of the French 12. The Translation of the Clerks PART FOUR: SOME VERSIONS OF DENIAL 13. Clerisy or Undesirables: T. S. Eliot 14. Professional Cackling: R. G. Collingwood 15. Other People: George Orwell 16. Nothing to Say: A. J. P. Taylor 17. No True Answers: A. J. Ayer PART FIVE: REPEAT PERFORMANCES 18. Outsider Studies: The Glamour of Dissent 19. Media Studies: A Discourse of General Ideas 20. Long Views I: Specialization and its Discontents 21. Long Views II: From Authority to Celebrity? Epilogue: No Elsewhere