Scholarship and Freedom

by Geoffrey Galt Harpham

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674245016
• ISBN13: 9780674245013
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.8" x 8.3"