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Article: Intellectual courage.
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- Social Research
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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THIS IS AN ARTLESS PAPER, WITH MORE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CONTENT than is proper. The autobiographical content may be excused by this consideration: teaching political philosophy for 40 years in a great variety of institutions, I have been puzzled and amused by the ways in which different writers and their work have attracted or repelled their readers. In particular, there is often a sharp disconnect between the narrowly intellectual and the more broadly human--what one might call the psychological or temperamental--appeal of different writers. This is not, of course, to suggest that either the intellectual or the human appeal has been predictable, as though every student can ...