Beautiful piece on an extraordinarily gifted AND principled man. It fills me with nostalgia for an Academia that seems to dissolve behind our backs as we head into old age. Was it only a dream then that real, solid, hard-to-come-by knowledge mattered more than our personal lives and could change the course of events in the world for the better? I cannot get myself to believe that.
Beautiful piece on an extraordinarily gifted AND principled man. It fills me with nostalgia for an Academia that seems to dissolve behind our backs as we head into old age. Was it only a dream then that real, solid, hard-to-come-by knowledge mattered more than our personal lives and could change the course of events in the world for the better? I cannot get myself to believe that.
Thank you Gilbert. Bought his book on Libya just now.