Download or read book Absent Minds written by Stefan Collini and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of 'the question of intellectuals' in 20th-century Britain, this book challenges the myth that there are no 'real' intellectuals in Britain and offers an analysis of 'the intellectual' as a concept as well as detailed discussions of influential figures such as T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, and Edward Said.