John T. Hamilton is the William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Soliciting Darkness; Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language; Security; and Philology of the Flesh, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"With a fast-paced text in thirteen pithy chapters, brief endnotes, and an index nominum, John T. Hamilton’s Complacency will inspire classicists to reconsider their attitude towards their work and the place of their field in academia."

• The Wolf on the PlainSin in the AcademyColonial PlanningPropositional SurfacesClassical PlatformsPhilology as Ancilla FacultatumPhilological InvestigationsPleasingly FlatPlateaThe War on ComplacencyThe Golden AgeInstitutionsThe HumanitiesNotesWorks CitedIndex

John T. Hamilton is the William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Soliciting Darkness; Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language; Security; and Philology of the Flesh, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"With a fast-paced text in thirteen pithy chapters, brief endnotes, and an index nominum, John T. Hamilton’s Complacency will inspire classicists to reconsider their attitude towards their work and the place of their field in academia."

• The Wolf on the PlainSin in the AcademyColonial PlanningPropositional SurfacesClassical PlatformsPhilology as Ancilla FacultatumPhilological InvestigationsPleasingly FlatPlateaThe War on ComplacencyThe Golden AgeInstitutionsThe HumanitiesNotesWorks CitedIndex

John T. Hamilton is the William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Soliciting Darkness; Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language; Security; and Philology of the Flesh, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"With a fast-paced text in thirteen pithy chapters, brief endnotes, and an index nominum, John T. Hamilton’s Complacency will inspire classicists to reconsider their attitude towards their work and the place of their field in academia."

• The Wolf on the PlainSin in the AcademyColonial PlanningPropositional SurfacesClassical PlatformsPhilology as Ancilla FacultatumPhilological InvestigationsPleasingly FlatPlateaThe War on ComplacencyThe Golden AgeInstitutionsThe HumanitiesNotesWorks CitedIndex