Scholarship and Freedom /
Harpham, Geoffrey Galt
Scholarship and Freedom / Geoffrey Galt Harpham. - 1 online resource (208 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A Tropism toward Freedom -- One: The Scholar as Problem -- Two: Conversion and the Question of Evidence -- Three: Virgin Vision: Scholarship and the Birth of the New -- Conclusion: Too Much Freedom? -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
A powerful and original argument that the practice of scholarship is grounded in the concept of radical freedom, beginning with the freedoms of inquiry, thought, and expression. Why are scholars and scholarship invariably distrusted and attacked by authoritarian regimes? Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that at its core, scholarship is informed by an emancipatory agenda based on a permanent openness to the new, an unlimited responsiveness to evidence, and a commitment to conversion. At the same time, however, scholarship involves its own forms of authority. As a worldly practice, it is a struggle for dominance without end as scholars try to disprove the claims of others, establish new versions of the truth, and seek disciples. Scholarship and Freedom threads its general arguments through examinations of the careers of three scholars: W. E. B. Du Bois, who serves as an example of scholarly character formation; South African Bernard Lategan, whose New Testament studies became entangled on both sides of his country’s battles over apartheid; and Linda Nochlin, whose essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” virtually created the field of feminist art history.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674250314
10.4159/9780674250314 doi
Intellectual freedom.
Learning and scholarship.
EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects.
Academic. Art history. Bernard Lategan. Biblical studies. Democracy. Ekphrasis. Enlightenment. Evidence. Feminism. Footnote. Freedom. Hermeneutics. Higher education. History. Linda Nochlin. Modernity. Research. Scholarship. University. W. E. B. Du Bois. apartheid.
AZ101 / .H37 2020eb
001.2092/2
Scholarship and Freedom / Geoffrey Galt Harpham. - 1 online resource (208 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A Tropism toward Freedom -- One: The Scholar as Problem -- Two: Conversion and the Question of Evidence -- Three: Virgin Vision: Scholarship and the Birth of the New -- Conclusion: Too Much Freedom? -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
A powerful and original argument that the practice of scholarship is grounded in the concept of radical freedom, beginning with the freedoms of inquiry, thought, and expression. Why are scholars and scholarship invariably distrusted and attacked by authoritarian regimes? Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that at its core, scholarship is informed by an emancipatory agenda based on a permanent openness to the new, an unlimited responsiveness to evidence, and a commitment to conversion. At the same time, however, scholarship involves its own forms of authority. As a worldly practice, it is a struggle for dominance without end as scholars try to disprove the claims of others, establish new versions of the truth, and seek disciples. Scholarship and Freedom threads its general arguments through examinations of the careers of three scholars: W. E. B. Du Bois, who serves as an example of scholarly character formation; South African Bernard Lategan, whose New Testament studies became entangled on both sides of his country’s battles over apartheid; and Linda Nochlin, whose essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” virtually created the field of feminist art history.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674250314
10.4159/9780674250314 doi
Intellectual freedom.
Learning and scholarship.
EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects.
Academic. Art history. Bernard Lategan. Biblical studies. Democracy. Ekphrasis. Enlightenment. Evidence. Feminism. Footnote. Freedom. Hermeneutics. Higher education. History. Linda Nochlin. Modernity. Research. Scholarship. University. W. E. B. Du Bois. apartheid.
AZ101 / .H37 2020eb
001.2092/2