Title: The delegated intellect
Description: This volume honors Don Gifford, master teacher, exacting researcher, and provocative writer. The essays reflect some but not all of the disciplines that Gifford taught - literature, art, ecology, invention, American culture, and the history of ideas. Heeding Emerson's call to "search for facts amid appearances" and to pursue "the ultimate reason of [all things and experience]" these essays illustrate how contemporary scholars in a variety of fields fulfill their role as society's delegated intellect.
Subjects: Learning and scholarship, Bibliography, Study and teaching, Humanities, Philosophy, Influence, Modern Civilization, American essays, Science and the humanities, Creative thinking, Plato, Lawrence, d. h. (david herbert), 1885-1930
Places: United States
People: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Don Gifford
Time periods: 20th century