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Eric Hobsbawm on "Literacy and the Tower of Babel"
Eric Hobsbawm on "Literacy and the Tower of Babel"
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23 minutes
Released:
Oct 10, 2022
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Podcast episode
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In this episode from the Vault, we hear from historian Eric Hobsbawm, a frequent visitor at the New York Institute for the Humanities. His talk, Literacy and the Tower of Babel, took place in November 1984.
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Released:
Oct 10, 2022
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Podcast episode
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