He studied English at Cambridge, where he absorbed the respect-for-text discipline espoused by F. R. Leavis, the critical giant of the time.
Its pervasiveness may well be judged oppressive by contemporary Western standards, since so much depended, it seems, on mastering the orthodox texts and discipline.
Phillips takes this text, and disciplines himself out of conforming with the current.
More than a few of the resulting texts in disciplines as varied as sociology and philosophy are dense, turgid and jargon ridden, or so the complaint goes.
Yet, somewhat ironically, the intellectual habits cultivated by studying classic texts across disciplines is perfectly suited to solving the problems of today and tomorrow, especially through roles in public policy and public service.
The book is a landscape history of England and a seminal text in that discipline and in local history.
This biochemical change is seen in other mammals, so we can't just chalk it up to texting or poor discipline.
The latter offers readings of the icons of contemporary culture and has become a basic text in the academic discipline known as cultural studies.
In the facilitated workshop a patient transcript was selected and the facilitator asked each academic to give their analysis of the particular text from their own discipline.
The following year, he recovered sufficiently to write what would become his most celebrated work and one of the founding texts of the emergent discipline of sociology, "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism".
Mr. Cameron banned cellphones and BlackBerrys from cabinet meetings, partly a response to reports of fractious cabinet meetings under the former Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, when ministers were reported to have signaled the growing disintegration of the government's unity and discipline by texting and browsing the Internet at the cabinet table.
