Sheldon Pollock: The Great Chain of Academic Being

Professor Sheldon Pollock (Columbia): The Great Chain of Academic Being: A View from the Bottom: Reflections on the Non-Western, the Non-Modern and the Philological (CRASSH, 13 May, 2010). Professor Pollock was speaking at the Centre as part of the Mellon CDI Invited Fellows Programme.

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Education

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• Philological
• Lecture
• Cambridge
• University

[ThewildRageofGordon]

Why, however, were the slaves of ancient Athens already miserable wretches? (the pre-'sense' agent can't be burdened by externality)

[ThewildRageofGordon]

Did they actually censor my comment about that creep Searle and his minions, wow! Breathtakingly comic.

[boabysands123]

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5:00 Professor Sheldon starts

18:40 Starts his discussion of Great Chain of Academic Being

44:25 90% of Grad. Comparative literature research is directed to 3% of human literary experience.

1:08:20 Great quick pitch - Why bother with all this?

[CRASSHmedia]

@rayads786, we only filmed the keynote from The Ideas of India conference. It was given by Professor Peter Van Der Veer (Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen) and will be available here in due course.

[rayads786]

@JonThm How is that relevant?

[rayads786]

Can you upload the india in Britain 1957-2007 talk that was mentioned please...

[MillioN1199]

@DreadsideNubune Love it.