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Editorial: Ivory Towers and Glass Houses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

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This demonstration of self-esteem by A. D. Godley would be provocative if it were not unmistakably ironical. Those who are not dons know better. They remember and endorse Hilaire Belloc's onslaught on the remote and ineffectual don who dared attack his Chesterton. Dons live in ivory towers, untouched by time's revenges, the law's delays and the insolence of office. They are innocent of all the guile of the real world of politics and commerce, telegrams and anger.

Type
Editorial
Information
Philosophy , Volume 62 , Issue 239 , January 1987 , pp. 1 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1987

References

1 This is a slightly revised version of a talk broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 14 February 1986 and on 4 January 1987.