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"I have been waiting for years for a book about my profession as vital and zesty as Academic Instincts. Now Marjorie Garber has written it with her customary fireworks, learning, and flair. It should change our minds about academic life--for the better."--Catharine R. Stimpson, New York University
"In Academic Instincts--a bravura inspection of various foibles and follies currently besetting the academic humanities--Marjorie Garber reveals herself as an ideal tour guide: energetic, canny, jocund, illuminating, and as wicked as she needs to be. Yet even as she skewers the amour-propre of contemporary pedants and pullulaters, she also offers a passionate defense of the intellectual enterprise itself. Garber's book is solace as well as sortie: a potent affirmation of our noblest 'academic instincts' and the quest after truth they continue to embody."--Terry Castle, Stanford University
"Marjorie Garber's Academic Instincts is a light, tripping, subtle argument in defense of the academic profession. It is itself a fascinating instance of refusing 'to have arbitrary lines drawn between things: between old masterpieces and contemporary works, between art and the rest of the world, between criticism and conversation.'"--Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University
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- Title Academic Instincts
- Author Marjorie Garber
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Pages 200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Date 2003-09-07
- ISBN 9780691115719 / 0691115710
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.36 x 5.12 x 0.6 in (21.23 x 13.00 x 1.52 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 001.307
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