Robert Grudin

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Robert Grudin (born 1938) is an American writer and philosopher.

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Grudin graduated from Harvard, and earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1992-1993. Until 1998 he was a professor of English at the University of Oregon. He has written about many political and philosophical themes including liberty, determinism, and several others.[1]

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Grudin is the author of the metafictional novel Book, Mighty Opposites: Shakespeare and Renaissance Contrariety, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation, On Dialogue: An Essay in Free Thought, Time and the Art of Living, The Most Amazing Thing, and, most recently, American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation Versus the Culture of Awareness.[2]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ "Robert Grudin". foresight.org. Foresight Institute. Archived from the original on September 24, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060924054559/http://www.foresight.org/about/Grudin.html. Retrieved 2 April 2011. 
  2. ^ "Design and Truth: Robert Grudin". yale.edu. Yale University Press. http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300161403. Retrieved 2 April 2011. 

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