Writers and Missionaries av Adam Shatz

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<b>What does it mean to be a politically committed writer?</b><br><br>Through 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?<br><br>Shatz 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. <br> <br>Charting 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 L&