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> In the humanities it’s the point, No, it really isn't, and virtually no one who earnestly engages with the thinkers in question would come away thinking tha
by keiferski 6y ago
> In the humanities it’s the point,
No, it really isn't, and virtually no one who earnestly engages with the thinkers in question would come away thinking that.
- pbourke 6y ago> virtually no one who earnestly engages with the thinkers in question would come away thinking that. I “earnestly engaged” with it by doing a humanities degree 20 years ago when this stuff was taking root. The only field that seems resistant to being overwhelmed by it is history, possibly because the scholarship must be grounded in original sources.
- philosopher1234 6y agoWhat have you read in the humanities recently?
- haberman 6y agoI think the classic essay "How to Deconstruct Almost Anything" from 1993 is a counterexample: https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html