PART I: HOMO ACADEMICUS: MAKING THE CASE From Rational to Relevant: What Counts as 'Public' Knowledge?; J.S.Andrews From the Organic to the Accidental: Cultural Studies and the Proliferation of Contemporary Categories of the Academic as Public Intellectual; H.K.Wright Beyond the Specialist/Generalist Framework? Reflections on Three Decades of the Comparative History of Intellectual Discourse; K.A.Jakobsen Homo Academicus, Quo Vadis?; J.Servaes The Enemy Within? Intellectuals and Violence in the 'Postmodern Condition'; M.Stocchetti Far Out! : The Existential Situation of the African-American Public Intellectual; A.DeRango-Adem Language and Limitations: Toward a New Praxis of Public Intellectualism; K.Comer & T.Jensen PART II: CASE STUDIES Should Philosophers Become Public Intellectuals?; S.Rickless The Ethics of Public Intellectual Work; D.Beard Antonio Cornejo Polar and the Engagement of Intellectuals; J.Zevallos-Aguilar International Perspectives on Speaking Truth to Power; D.R.Heisey Imagined Community Service: The Need for Queer Approaches to Service Learning; A.Myers Writing with an Accent; L.Ezzaher