Representations of the Intellectual Chloe Michelle Howarth and a self-destructive twenty-something who

and a self-destructive twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys - she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very questions she is bringing to Wendell

only to wake up the following day in hospital

and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose

It is fifteen years after a flu pandemic wiped out most of the world's population

capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members

Representations of the Intellectual Chloe Michelle Howarth and a self-destructive twenty-something whoAre intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses this question with extraordinary eloquence. Said sees the intellectual as an exile and amateur whose role it is 'to speak the truth to power' even at the risk of ostracism or imprisonment. Drawing on the examples of Jonathan Swift and Theodor