{"product_id":"writers-and-missionaries-essays-on-the-radical-imagination","title":"Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWriters and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAdam Shatz\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781804290590\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVerso\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat does it mean to be a politically committed writer?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the cut and thrust of politics? And, in an age of horror and crisis, what does it mean to be a committed writer? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShatz interrogates the major figures of twentieth and twenty-first century thought and finds within their lives and work the roots of our present intellectual and geopolitical situation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharting the role of the committed intellectual through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre on the Algerian War and Edward Said's lifelong solidarity with the Palestinian people, to Fouad Ajami's role as the \"native informant\" for pro-intervention cause in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, alongside philosophers and critics Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Claude Lévi-Strauss and the novelists Michel Houllebecq and Richard Wright, each struggled to reconcile their writing and their politics, their thought and their commitments. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eWriters and Missionaries\u003c\/i\u003e is an erudite and incisive work of intellectual elucidation and biographical enquiry that demands that we interrogate anew the relation of thought and action in the struggle for a more just world.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination | Adam Shatz | Hardcover | 9781804290590 | New | Literary Criticism 1564759","offer_id":50585916178690,"sku":"1564759","price":49.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71bZ7cWVJSL.jpg?v=1791076120","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/writers-and-missionaries-essays-on-the-radical-imagination","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}