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Wendell Marsh, "Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities" (Columbia UP, 2025)

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Philology, the Textual Attitude, and Hope

Wendell defines philology as 'the love of study', develops the 'textual attitude', and argues for hope in the humanities amid higher-education crises and algorithmic antihumanism.

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