Academic Instincts
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Author
Publication
2001 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
Language
English
Word Count
46,750 words, Guess
Page Count
187 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveacademicinstinct0000garb
- Internet Archiveacademicinst_garb_2001_000_7677585
- ISBN-10069104970X
- ISBN-139780691049700
- Library of Congress Control Number00056510
and 5 more
- OCLC Control Number52522363
- OCLC Control Number44502352
- Better World Books9780691049700
- Better World Books9781400814268
- Open LibraryOL25889140M
Classifications
- LCCAZ182.G37 2001
- LCCAZ182 .G37 2001eb
- LCCAZ 182 G37 2001
and 1 more
- LCCAZ182 .G37 2001
Description
In this book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language." Rather than merely taking sides, the book explores the ways in which such debates are essential to intellectual life. Garber argues that the very things deplored or defended in discussions of the humanities can be neither eliminated nor endorsed because the discussion itself is what gives humanistic thought its vitality.
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