Stanley Fish – Think Again: The Uses of the Humanities, Part Two
Posted by Ted Hopton on January 14, 2008
Here’s the Digg summary of Part Two of Stanley Fish’s examination of the value of studying the humanities:
Do you think the humanities have a use in today’s society? Here is a great public discussion on the issue.
Now, I’ll save you some time: don’t bother reading the article unless you are truly an intellectual in search of some mind-bending reasoning about quite an obscure subject. However, in the next breath I have to say that I am astonished at how many people have commented on the article already! So, there are a heckuva lot of intellectuals out there reading Stanley Fish’s argument, and that kind of impresses me.
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