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Virtue and the Quiet Art of Scholarship
Virtue and the Quiet Art of Scholarship offers a fresh perspective on what it is to be a ‘good knower’ in a social and educational environment dominated by the market order. It explores how narrowly conceived epistemic virtues might be broadened out by seeing those who work and study in the university in their full humanity. In an era characterized by deep and enduring social and cultural divisions, it offers a timely, accessible and critical perspective on the perils of retreating behind disciplinary boundaries, reminding readers of the need to remain open to the other in a time of increased social and political polarization. Drawing on the work of Leonard Cohen, Ali Smith, Italo Calvino and Raymond Carver, the book seeks to move across disciplines and distort the line between the humanities and the social sciences as a way of bringing them closer together. It explores virtue in the context of scholarship and research, particularly how the ‘virtues of unknowing’ challenge traditional notions of the ‘good knower’. The book offers the framework within which to bridge the gap between ‘us’ and ‘them’ in relation to developments in the university sector, addressing the urgent need for a form of language that promotes unity over division. Virtue and the Quiet Art of Scholarship will be vital reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, sociology of education, research methods in education and education policy.
156 pages, Hardcover
Published October 18, 2018
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September 7, 2021
A lightness that makes the vivacious book float and fly beyond comprehension
This book is by and large unconventional, and it deliberately does so in capturing the essence of Pirrie's arguments, even though an argument is never truly accentuated within the book itself.
The book lives as paradox as do the characters and prose within, there's an almost beautiful eloquence to this book, it remains entrenched in a type of embodied complexity whilst denouncing itself as mere literary composition.
What results from this is a book that calls for turn away from binary distinctions toward a conversational vision of the contemporary university that sees academics become aware of the other, wayfaring in becoming enmeshed and entangled in inhabitant knowledge and the immersion of knowing. Thus, ensuring a move beyond tribal factions of isms, dogma and fields of knowledge.
Drawing heavily on Leonard Cohen, Anne's writing captures the guide for living with defeat, a song of forgiving (oneself and not feeling shame as an academic) and the truth, that is, we are but a brief elaboration of a tube, what that tube is remains open to the reader, but personally I think of that elaboration as an instrument for the cosmos, and that is Pirrie's main argument, to navigate academia successfully one should embody diffidence, modesty and humility and not take ourselves all too seriously, rather the focus ought to be on civic community emancipation.
This book is by and large unconventional, and it deliberately does so in capturing the essence of Pirrie's arguments, even though an argument is never truly accentuated within the book itself.
The book lives as paradox as do the characters and prose within, there's an almost beautiful eloquence to this book, it remains entrenched in a type of embodied complexity whilst denouncing itself as mere literary composition.
What results from this is a book that calls for turn away from binary distinctions toward a conversational vision of the contemporary university that sees academics become aware of the other, wayfaring in becoming enmeshed and entangled in inhabitant knowledge and the immersion of knowing. Thus, ensuring a move beyond tribal factions of isms, dogma and fields of knowledge.
Drawing heavily on Leonard Cohen, Anne's writing captures the guide for living with defeat, a song of forgiving (oneself and not feeling shame as an academic) and the truth, that is, we are but a brief elaboration of a tube, what that tube is remains open to the reader, but personally I think of that elaboration as an instrument for the cosmos, and that is Pirrie's main argument, to navigate academia successfully one should embody diffidence, modesty and humility and not take ourselves all too seriously, rather the focus ought to be on civic community emancipation.
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