Author: chad wellmon
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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, A Review
Twilight of an Idol Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, by William Deresiewicz William Deresiewicz, a former professor of English at Yale University, is not a fan of American elite education.…
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Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern University
Since its inception, the research university has been the central institution of knowledge in the West. Today, however, its intellectual authority is being challenged on many fronts, above all by radical technological change. Organizing Enlightenment tells the story of how the university…
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Recovering Philology: A Review
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities James Turner Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction Jerome McGann Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. In the not-too-distant past,…
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Nietzsche Transformed: How the Philologist Became Modernity’s Philosopher with a Hammer
It’s hard to read the old-fashioned way, slowly and deliberately. Few of us have the patience, the concentration, or the time. When we do read, we skim, trying to get a quick “take” on the topics of the day, often conveniently…
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