Scholarship and Freedom

Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that scholars play a unique role in liberal society, manifesting in refined form the freedoms it guarantees and demanding that it make good on those same guarantees. Far from ivory-tower intellectuals, scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Linda Nochlin undertake the radical social act of questioning received wisdom.

Geoffrey Galt Harpham sustine ca eruditii joaca un rol unic in societatea liberala, manifestand intr-o forma rafinata libertatile pe care le garanteaza si cerandu-i sa indeplineasca aceleasi garantii. Departe de intelectualii din turnul de fildes, carturari precum W.