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Manian requirement that "the methodology of rhetorical reading be identified (how closely, we shall see) with the institution and its strictly institutional agenda"; but a few sentences later he nonetheless finds it necessary to distinguish de Man from the "aggressively 'professionalist' polemic" of a pragmatist such as Stanley Fish (247).

Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

/I/think it is the professionalist skunks to blame mostly, who have sneaked into the once-entrepreneurial middleclass with their bogus non-productive “credentials,” clientize eveyone they can catch to build up their own thieving position, and I suspect sit around and talk trash about The Trash, just like a lot of you coppers in this blog … only The Trained & Objectively God-Damned Liberals are witty enough to do it behind closed doors ….

The Customer Is Always Right « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

Under the influence of leaders in American nursing such as Professor Isabel Maitland Stewart (1878 – 1963) of Columbia University, the school provided wide-ranging training for nurses in line with professionalist approaches in education.

Shulamith Cantor. 2009

Campaigns for a "living wage" for university employees seem promising in part because it both exploits and critiques the professionalist mindset.

Site Four: Romantic Populism and Insurgent Civil Society. 2002