Author: chad wellmon
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“Future Philology”: New Directions Fellowship
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Assoc. Prof. Chad Wellmon a New Directions Fellowship last month in support of his proposal for a new course of study in the cross-disciplinary field of digital textual analysis. The $177,000 Mellon grant will…
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Irish Times Interview on Anti-Education
Ireland prides itself on the relatively high proportion of its young people who have higher-education qualifications. But Friedrich Nietzschewould not be impressed. The German philosopher saw the democratisation of higher education as an affront to genius.
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The Enlightenment Index
The main figures that populate our historical accounts of the Enlightenment are human—be they enemies of Enlightenment, such as the priest or the tyrant, or defenders like the philosophe or Aufklärer. [3] But in Kant’s essay, “What is Enlightenment?” (1784),…
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Enlightenment, Some Assembly required
The main figures that populate accounts of the Enlightenment are human–be they enemies of Enlightenment, such as the priest or the tyrant; defenders such as the philosophe or Aufklärer; or intellectuals socially assembled in coffee houses or salons, exercising opinion…
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