Title: Worlds made by words
First published: 2009
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Subjects: Learning and scholarship, Civilization, Intellectual life, History, Western Civilization, Europe, civilization, Europe, intellectual life
Places: Europe, United States, Western Europe
LC classification: CB245 .G65 2009