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In this engagingly unacademic meditation, a professor of philosophy interweaves Friedrich Nietzsche’s biography with accounts of his own visits to Sils-Maria, in the Swiss Alps, where Nietzsche spent much of his writing life.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018

All the moving around meant she came to see herself as unacademic.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2017

But are arguably unacademic opinions—inflammatory falsehoods that have no apparent basis in fact—also covered?

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2016

Professors have been commenting on the at best unacademic and sometimes downright hostile attitude of today’s college students for quite a while.

From Forbes • Aug. 8, 2014

At the outset, he shared the university scientist’s traditional antipathy to the patent process, so redolent of commercialism and so distinctly unacademic.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik