{"product_id":"scholarship-and-freedom","title":"Scholarship and Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful and original argument that the practice of scholarship is grounded in the concept of radical freedom, beginning with the freedoms of inquiry, thought, and expression.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy are scholars and scholarship invariably distrusted and attacked by authoritarian regimes? Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that at its core, scholarship is informed by an emancipatory agenda based on a permanent openness to the new, an unlimited responsiveness to evidence, and a commitment to conversion. At the same time, however, scholarship involves its own forms of authority. As a worldly practice, it is a struggle for dominance without end as scholars try to disprove the claims of others, establish new versions of the truth, and seek disciples. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eScholarship and Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e threads its general arguments through examinations of the careers of three scholars: W. E. B. Du Bois, who serves as an example of scholarly character formation; South African Bernard Lategan, whose New Testament studies became entangled on both sides of his country's battles over apartheid; and Linda Nochlin, whose essay \"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?\" virtually created the field of feminist art history.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50010180288762,"sku":"9780674245013","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_fde58f5d-5c3c-4dbf-abb4-fc508423c173.jpg?v=1786130778","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/scholarship-and-freedom","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}