Aug
9
When Dinosaurs Roamed the Halls of Academia
August 9, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Poor old Anthony Grafton! In fact, he’s not really all that old (he’s 55), and yet he’s already a dinosaur. It can’t be easy to live in a world where your ideas, your commitments, indeed your whole Weltanschauung, is nearly extinct. In part I must sympathize with him, because like him I study the past. [...]