Scholarship and freedom

Scholarship and freedom

by Harpham, Geoffrey Galt

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"Scholarship and Freedom argues that these two very broad concepts must be thought together, with freedom seen as the enabling condition of scholarship and scholarship as the most refined and disciplined form of such fundamental freedoms as inquiry, thought, and expression. The book's three main sections each explore an aspect of scholarship through an examination of the career of a particular scholar: W.E.B. Dubois, who serves here as an example of scholarly character formation; Bernard Latega…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Scholarship and freedom / Geoffrey Galt Harpham.

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"Scholarship and Freedom argues that these two very broad concepts must be thought together, with freedom seen as the enabling condition of scholarship and scholarship as the most refined and disciplined form of such fundamental freedoms as inquiry, thought, and expression. The book's three main sections each explore an aspect of scholarship through an examination of the career of a particular scholar: W.E.B. Dubois, who serves here as an example of scholarly character formation; Bernard Lategan, whose extraordinary career illuminates the centrality for the practice of scholarship of the concept of evidence; and Linda Nochlin, whose almost single-handed founding of the discourse of feminist art history illustrates the capacity of scholarship both to destroy and to create"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2020.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780674250314, 0674250311
  • oclc:on1182632242
  • LC Classification:AZ101
  • Dewey Decimal:001.2092/2

Table of Contents

Introduction: A tropism toward freedom -- Chapter 1. The scholar as problem -- Chapter 2. Conversion and the question of evidence -- Chapter 3. Virgin vision: scholarship and the birth of the new -- Conclusion: Too much freedom?

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Subjects

Du Bois, W. E. B., (William Edward Burg… EDUCATION -- Philosophy & Social Aspects Intellectual freedom Lategan, Bernard C. Learning and scholarship Liberté de pensée Nochlin, Linda Savoir et érudition

Writers

Harpham, Geoffrey Galt

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