Reflections of a Learner
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6265316 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hugh Seton‐watson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 512-527 |
| Publication date | 1980-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Government and Opposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1980.tb00294.x |
| OpenAlex | W2015623941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
MY DOMINANT INTELLECTUAL CONCERNS HAVE BEEN WORLD politics and history, with strong but subsidiary passions – engaging the mind not less than the body – for watching wild creatures, looking at paintings and buildings and walking and (in my younger days) climbing on mountains. These are not gregarious pursuits; and though I have been a fiercely, and perhaps parochially, loyal member of various small groups at various times I have mostly been a lone magpie, picking up small things from many places. I used to think the word ‘scholar’ pompous and pretentious, but now I would accept it as a description, using it in the sense prevalent in the Middle Ages, when scholars travelled, in space and time, in pursuit of learning. A learner at least I have been and am. I once believed that I was learning in order to prepare myself for some special service to society: I long ago discovered that I could best serve, inadequately of course but still serve, by going on trying to learn. I have much of which to be ashamed in my life, but of this discovery I am not ashamed
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Creatures · Curiosity · Literature · Media studies · Natural (archaeology · Order (exchange · Passions · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2023 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |