"… the self-enclosing processes by which late 20th-century
American academics established and secured their status
(you painfully develop a thesis in competition with your peers,
then you keep on elaborating it until you die)."
This excellent passage is from . . .
The book under review above is
Here and There: Sites of Philosophy ,
from Harvard University Press.
The target of the new URL neither.site is
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Harvard+Philosophy.