On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All -- Arnoud S. Q. Visser, Hardcover

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On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All -- Arnoud S. Q. Visser, HardcoverA lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice Intellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression. Many learned individuals have cast such hostility as a badge of honor, a sign of envy, or a form of resistance to inconvenient truths. On Pedantry offers an altogether different perspective, revealing how the excessive use of learning has been a vice in Western culture since the days of

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