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On Pedantry : A Cultural History of the Know-It-All.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Visser, A. S. Q. (Arnoud S. Q.)
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice Intellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression.Many learned individuals have cast such hostility as a badge of honor, a sign of envy, or a form of resistance to inconvenient truths.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction: Irritating Minds
- Part I: Avant la Lettre
- 1. Devious Sophists
- 2. Impostor Philosophers
- 3. Quarrelsome Clerks
- Part II: Republics of Letters
- 4. Foolish Humanists
- 5. Affected savantes
- Part III: Democratization
- 6. Effete Elitists
- 7. Pedantic Professors
- Epilogue: The Cons and Pros of Pedantry
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-25758-2
- OCLC:
- 1532828956
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