Worlds made by words : scholarship and community in the modern West

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Worlds made by words : scholarship and community in the modern West

Anthony Grafton

Harvard University Press, 2011, c2009

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"First Harvard University Press paperback edition 2011"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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* Acknowledgments * Introduction * A Sketch Map of a Lost Continent: The Republic of Letters * A Humanist Crosses Boundaries: Alberti on Historia and Istoria * A Contemplative Scholar: Trithemius Conjures the Past * The World in a Room: Renaissance Histories of Art and Nature * Where Was Salomon's House? Ecclesiastical History and the Intellectual Origins of Bacon's New Atlantis * Chronology, Controversy, and Community in the Republic of Letters: The Case of Kepler * The Universal Language: Splendors and Sorrows of Latin in the Modern World * Entrepreneurs of the Soul, Impresarios of Learning: The Jesuits * In No Man's Land: Christian Learning and the Jews * The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, 1950--2000 and Beyond * The Messrs. Casaubon: Isaac Casaubon and Mark Pattison * Momigliano's Method and the Warburg Institute: Studies in His Middle Period * The Public Intellectual and the American University: Robert Morss Lovett * The Public Intellectual and the Private Sphere: Arendt and Eichmann at the Dinner Table * Codex in Crisis * Notes * Sources * Index

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