Scholarship and Freedom

Scholarship and Freedom

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 rad...

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1. Verfasser: Harpham, Geoffrey Galt
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Sprache:eng
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Intellectual freedom
Learning and scholarship
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Zusammenfassung: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.
DOI:10.4159/9780674250314