TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harpham,Geoffrey Galt
TI  - Scholarship and Freedom
SN  - 9780674250314
AV  - AZ101 .H37 2020eb
U1  - 001.2092/2 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Intellectual freedom
KW  - Learning and scholarship
KW  - EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Academic
KW  - Art history
KW  - Bernard Lategan
KW  - Biblical studies
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Ekphrasis
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Evidence
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Footnote
KW  - Freedom
KW  - Hermeneutics
KW  - Higher education
KW  - History
KW  - Linda Nochlin
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Research
KW  - Scholarship
KW  - University
KW  - W. E. B. Du Bois
KW  - apartheid
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674250314
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674250314
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674250314/original
ER  -