On the humanities, and the necessity of their survival precisely because they serve no higher function or extrinsic benefit.
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“One must first understand that the popular critiques of the current state of the humanities—overspecialization, too much publication, too much obscurity and jargon, too much research and too little teaching—are fundamentally misguided.”
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“The critics, often well-meaning, think they are attacking the decadence and excess of contemporary humanities scholarship, when in fact they are striking at the very heart of the humanities as they have existed for centuries.”
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