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Author Grafton, Anthony.

Title Worlds made by words : scholarship and community in the modern West / Anthony Grafton
Published Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2009

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Description viii, 422 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction -- A sketch map of a lost continent: the republic of letters -- A humanist crosses boundaries: Alberti on "historia" and "istoria" -- A contemplative scholar: Trithemius conjures the past -- The world in a room: Renaissance histories of art and nature -- Where was Salomon's house? Ecclesiastical history and the intellectual origins of Bacon's new Atlantis -- Chronology, controversy, and community in the republic of letters: the case of Kepler -- The universal language: splendors and sorrows of Latin in the modern world -- Entrepreneurs of the soul, impresarios of learning: the Jesuits -- In no man's land: Christian learning and the Jews -- The history of ideas: precept and practice, 1950-2000 and beyond -- The Messrs. Casaubon: Isaac Casaubon and Mark Pattison -- Momigliano's method and the Warburg Institute: studies in his middle period -- The public intellectual and the American university: Robert Morss Lovett -- The public intellectual and the private sphere: Arendt and Eichmann at the dinner table -- Codex in crisis: the book dematerializes -- Notes -- Sources -- Index
Summary "In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common ideals, practices, and institutions. It's like Masonry, but without the secret handshakes. Grafton reveals the microdynamics of the scholarly life through a series of essays on institutions and on scholars ranging from early modern polymaths to modern intellectual historians to American thinkers and writers."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Learning and scholarship -- Europe, Western -- History.
Learning and scholarship -- United States -- History.
SUBJECT Europe -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045637
Europe -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726
LC no. 2008041248
ISBN 9780674032576 hardback
0674032578 hardback