Absent Minds :Intellectuals in Britain
Absent Minds :Intellectuals in Britain
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26 July, 2007
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780199216659 |
| ISBN10 | 0199216657 |
| Number Of Pages | 538 |
| Item Weight | 663 g |
| Product Dimensions | 137 x 216 x 27 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Oxford University Press |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Review from previous edition Stefan Collini's Absent Minds provided an intriguing analysis of the question of intellectuals in Britian during the twentieth century...a superb, well-writtian book with few discernible flaws...Collini has tackled a complex subject in an imaginative and compelling fashion, and Absent Minds will only enhance his reputation as the leading schloar of British intellectual history. * Michael D. Stevenson russel:the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies *
Complex and challenging work. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
Absent Minds is a tour de force by a scholar and critic at the height of his powers * James Wilsdon, Financial Times *
Absent Minds is an intriguing, sometimes illuminating, book written with elegance and elan. * David Stack, The English Historical Review *
Stefan Collini promises a panoramic view of British intellectuals in the 20th century ... with contemporary disquisitions on "media studies" and celebrity. Collini is expert at the urbane insertion of a dagger: Should be provocative fun. * Steven Poole, The Guardian *
Collini should be praised for his rigour and integrity....Absent Minds is a provocative and impressive read. * Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph *
This magnificently perceptive survey of the British intellectual caste will prove hard to outstrip as the definitive account of its subject * Terry Eagleton, New Statesman, reprinted in Guardian *
a frequently brilliant survey * Mark Bostridge, Independent on Sunday *
As a history of thinking about intellectuals, Absent Minds is a valuable study * Kenan Malik, Sunday Telegraph *
...a splendidly challenging book * Bernard Bergonzi, The Tablet *
clever and entertaining revisionist history....Absent Minds brilliantly exemplifies the sort of human, intelligent and accessible critique he so eloquently advocates * Michael Saler, TLS *
...splendid new book... * Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian *
...[a] magisterial study...Collini is a skilled portraitist and provides us with some judicious, vividly detailed cameos of such figures as Collingwood, T S Eliot, Orwell, A J P Taylor and Freddie Ayer...this magnificently perceptive survey of the British intellectual caste, with a handful of French and American thinkers thrown in for good measure, will prove hard to outstrip as the definitive account of its subject. ,,,It is a stylish, finely analytical study... his literary style combines journalism with erudition, in the best manner of the tradition he investigates... it is a superb distillation of several decades of research and reflection.... this magnificently perceptive survey of the British intellectual caste, with a handful of French and American thinkers thrown in for good measure, will prove hard to outstrip as the definitive account of its subject. * Terry Eagleton, New Statesman *
Absent Minds is first rate...immensely authoritative * Winston Fletcher, THES *
a rich, subtle and complex book, which is a constant stimulus to thought...full of witty phrases * Robert Skidelsky, Prospect *
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Author's Bio
Stefan Collini is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall. A frequent contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, The London Review of Books, and other periodicals both in Britain and the USA, his previous books include Public Moralists (1991), Matthew Arnold: a Critical Portrait (1994), and English Pasts (1999). He is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society.