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Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West

Name: Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West
Brand: Harvard University Press
SKU: 9780674060258
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Contributors:

Anthony Grafton

Publisher:

Harvard University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Education, History, Literary Criticism

Book Subcategory:

History, Europe, European

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Release Date:

2011-05-31

ISBN 13:

9780674060258

Weight:

1.03 lbs

Size:

9.19 x 6.18 x 0.98 inches

Pages:

432

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In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common ideals, practices, and institutions. It's like Masonry, but without the secret handshakes. Grafton reveals the microdynamics of the scholarly life through a series of essays on institutions and on scholars ranging from early modern polymaths to modern intellectual historians to American thinkers and writers. He takes as his starting point the republic of letters--that loose society of intellectuals that first took shape in the sixteenth century and continued into the eighteenth. Its inhabitants were highly original, individual thinkers and writers. Yet as Grafton shows, they were all formed, in some way, by the very groups and disciplines that they set out to build. In our noisy, caffeinated world it has never been more challenging to be a scholar. When many of our fellow citizens seem to have forgotten why we collect books in the buildings we call libraries, Grafton's engaging, erudite essays could be a rallying cry for the revival of the liberal arts.

About the Author
Grafton, Anthony: - Anthony Grafton is the author of The Footnote, Defenders of the Text, Forgers and Critics, and Inky Fingers, among other books. The Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University, he writes regularly for the New York Review of Books.

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