Bücher von Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that scholars play a unique role in liberal society, manifesting in refined form the freedoms it guarantees and demanding that it make good on those same guarantees. Far from ivory-tower intellectuals, scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Linda Nochlin undertake the radical social act of questioning received wisdom.

Argues that the most powerful and effective criticism demands to be read as an expression of a distinctive sensibility, a way of being in the world, it demands, in other words, to be read as a discourse of character. This work unfolds the complex and indirect ways in which human character is expressed in criticism.