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Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness.

Stefan Collini

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

Stefan Collini

Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.

Stefan Collini

Stefan Collini

Stefan Collini

Born: September 6, 1947 (age 78)

Bio: Stefan Collini is an English literary critic and academic who is Professor of English Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall.

Known for:

What are Universities For? (2012)
Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain (2006)
Common reading (2008)
Public moralists (1991)

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