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Worlds Made by Words - Scholarship and Community in the Modern West (Paperback)
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Worlds Made by Words - Scholarship and Community in the Modern West (Paperback)
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In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets
of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary
lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the
conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common ideals,
practices, and institutions. It s like Masonry, but without the
secret handshakes. 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. He takes as his
starting point the republic of letters that loose society of
intellectuals that first took shape in the sixteenth century and
continued into the eighteenth. Its inhabitants were highly
original, individual thinkers and writers. Yet as Grafton shows,
they were all formed, in some way, by the very groups and
disciplines that they set out to build. In our noisy, caffeinated
world it has never been more challenging to be a scholar. When many
of our fellow citizens seem to have forgotten why we collect books
in the buildings we call libraries, Grafton s engaging, erudite
essays could be a rallying cry for the revival of the liberal arts.
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