Anthony Grafton

Worlds Made by Words

Scholarship and Community in the Modern West

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Grafton¿s engaging, erudite essays could be a rallying cry for the revival of the liberal arts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780674060258
• ISBN-10: 0674060253
• Artikelnr.: 32733219

Autorenporträt

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.