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Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West
Anthony Grafton
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West
Anthony Grafton
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.
432 pages, 5 halftones
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | May 31, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9780674060258 |
Publishers | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 432 |
Dimensions | 157 × 233 × 27 mm · 486 g |
Language | English |
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