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 radical social act of questioning received wisdom.

About the author

Geoffrey Galt Harpham is Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He was President and Director of the National Humanities Center from 2003 to 2015 and is author of The Humanities and the Dream of America and What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez? The American Revolution in Education.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: GEOFFREY GA HARPHAM, Geoffrey Galt Harpham
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780674245013
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24501-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, EDUCATION / History, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, History of Education, Literature: history & criticism, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Biography: writers, Higher education, tertiary education, Literature: history and criticism, Colleges of higher education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher