Description
Title: Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca
Author: Alexander Star
ISBN: 9780374528638
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2002
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : “Lingua Franca “covered the intellectual life of the 1990s–when American scholars took to the public stage as never before–with wit and passion and helped establish many of the leading voices in American journalism today.
Dedicated to the proposition that academia can compete for interest with Hollywood and Washington, “Lingua Franca” explained, in depth, the ideas of the decade–and told some of its least likely stories. In “Quick Studies” a physicist humiliates the gurus of postmodernism in an astonishing hoax; the “Dirty Harry” of literary theory renounces his calling; a Romanian dissident is assassinated in a faculty lavatory; and a leading feminist faces charges of sexual harassment.
Anyone concerned with the key debates of our time, and their idiosyncratic debaters, cannot afford to miss this book. It is nothing less than a collective portrait of the American intellectual in its native habits.
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