Scholarship and Freedom |
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Author:
| Harpham, Geoffrey Galt |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-24501-3 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2020 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that scholars play a unique role in liberal society, manifesting in refined form the freedoms it guarantees and demanding that it make good on those same guarantees. Far from ivory-tower intellectuals, scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Linda Nochlin undertake the radical social act of questioning received wisdom.
Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that scholars play a unique role in liberal society, manifesting in refined form the freedoms it guarantees and demanding that it make good on those same guarantees. Far from ivory-tower intellectuals, scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Linda Nochlin undertake the radical social act of questioning received wisdom.