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So here comes a book that makes everything easy: Towards a theory of intellectual history in the field of intellectual production

So here comes a book that makes everything easy: Towards a theory of intellectual history in the... And now here comes a book that makes everything easy.1 iven the rise, and now proliferation, of G theoretical work in the Humanities, we jon beasley-murray all need books that ease either our entry (apprenticeship?) or transition (retooling?) into this new set of discourses which have redefined and remade the intellectual sphere. SO HERE COMES A Lyotard, faced with the task of writing a foreword to The Lyotard Reader - a book BOOK THA T MAKES certainly designed to "make everything easy" in this way - suggests that "few things EVERYTHIN G EASY are more admirable than a good translation. towards a theory of Because of the air of self-abnegation that it gives off" (Lyotard, 1989 x). In much the intellectual history in same way, I would suggest, those books designed to allow a painless acculturation the field of intellectual into the present state of the academy are also "admirable" for a similar "air of self-abnega- production tion." And yet, this self-abnegation is, of course, disingenuous - if too often accepted - and, as Lyotard observes, it may be time to observe the effects wrought by these servants analysis. This is a narrative which constructs of the literary text. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

So here comes a book that makes everything easy: Towards a theory of intellectual history in the field of intellectual production

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So here comes a book that makes everything easy: Towards a theory of intellectual history in the field of intellectual production

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And now here comes a book that makes everything easy.1 iven the rise, and now proliferation, of G theoretical work in the Humanities, we jon beasley-murray all need books that ease either our entry (apprenticeship?) or transition (retooling?) into this new set of discourses which have redefined and remade the intellectual sphere. SO HERE COMES A Lyotard, faced with the task of writing a foreword to The Lyotard Reader - a book BOOK THA T MAKES certainly designed to "make everything...
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And now here comes a book that makes everything easy.1 iven the rise, and now proliferation, of G theoretical work in the Humanities, we jon beasley-murray all need books that ease either our entry (apprenticeship?) or transition (retooling?) into this new set of discourses which have redefined and remade the intellectual sphere. SO HERE COMES A Lyotard, faced with the task of writing a foreword to The Lyotard Reader - a book BOOK THA T MAKES certainly designed to "make everything easy" in this way - suggests that "few things EVERYTHIN G EASY are more admirable than a good translation. towards a theory of Because of the air of self-abnegation that it gives off" (Lyotard, 1989 x). In much the intellectual history in same way, I would suggest, those books designed to allow a painless acculturation the field of intellectual into the present state of the academy are also "admirable" for a similar "air of self-abnega- production tion." And yet, this self-abnegation is, of course, disingenuous - if too often accepted - and, as Lyotard observes, it may be time to observe the effects wrought by these servants analysis. This is a narrative which constructs of the literary text.

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Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 1997

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