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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The structure of afterthought - which I take from the French phrase 'l'esprit de l'escalier' - has an unhealthy domination over our thought, our scholarship and politics. Rather than facing up to the present and writing to the future, there is a powerful tendency to retain our gaze backwards, to be shackled in the past way of thinking. I suggest the counter-structure of imagination as one way to think about the nature of scholarship.
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