Conservatives' insistence that they're unfairly marginalized from the academy is difficult to square with their conviction that multiple academic fields, emerging from sincere engagement with the social and material conditions of modern life, simply should not exist
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Can't get hired at a Gender Studies department if you think it should be leveled and the earth upon which it stands salted, sorry if this offends
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @PetreRaleigh
Hm. Counterpoint: there are absolutely quite a number of classicists hired in classics departments arguing that the field of classics, as currently constructed, ought to be demolished.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @BretDevereaux
This is a very good counter-example and worth probing. My first response is to suggest that if Classics were demolished in the way these scholars suggest, the texts/contexts it has traditionally studied would continue to be objects of study, with different disciplinary parameters
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I cannot see that the same is true of, say, gender studies or critical race theory under conservative critiques
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @PetreRaleigh
Obviously it depends on the conservative critique; there is a range, to be sure. But the species of critique that would seek to more gender studies and critical race theory into traditional history/literature/sociology departments doesn't seem too different...
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @PetreRaleigh
...from the argument that Greek and Latin ought to have to share space, prominence and tenure-lines with a range of other pre-modern Mediterranean languages/cultures or (as I've seen proposed), all global 'ancient' cultures, however defined.
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Both plans would, in theory, involve unemploying quite a lot of scholars in the respective discipline with the sometimes tacit, sometimes explicit assumption that some small number of 'worthy' scholars in the discipline would survive by finding places in new combined departments.
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