Scholar's Life

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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What is a scholar? How does a scholar eat, sleep, work, love, live, and die? From Socrates, Confucius, and Cicero to Petrarch, Emilie du Chatelet, Nietzsche and hundreds more, a scholar's life is told as never before in this remarkable literary history.William Marx holds the Chair of Comparative Literature at the College de France. This book is translated from Vie du lettre (Minuit, 2009), recipient of the Montyon Prize of the Academie francaise in 2010.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-18
Mått150 x 222 x 18 mm
Vikt322 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagHermits United
ISBN9781916658202
ÖversättareElliott, Nicholas, Elliott, Nicholas, QC
UtmärkelserWinner of Montyon Prize 2010

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‘It would be tempting to regard Marx’s book as an equivalent record of a vanishing phenomenon, and indeed he refers to Freud as one of the last “men of letters” in Western culture. Melancholy is, of course, a condition to which scholars are especially prone (as discussed in the chapter on the subject), and an existential consequence of devoting one’s life to the temporary resurrection of a lost past. But Marx’s own learning, while lightly worn as decorum requires, is clearly the fruit of such devotion. This excellent, hugely informative book makes a quietly eloquent and timely case against the culture of a fundamentalism that looks set to provide limitless access to books, but threatens to destroy the conditions that create the people who know how to read them.’ – Ann Jefferson, The Times Literary Supplement