Sunday, March 1, 2009

Defending the Humanities

This article discusses some of the issues presented in the MLA paper recently posted.

2 comments:

Kent said...

I love the way the article ends in soft-core Marxist gloom:

"The essence of a humanities education — reading the great literary and philosophical works and coming 'to grips with the question of what living is for' — may become 'a great luxury that many cannot afford.'”

Dave said...

Good point. Literature, then, will become another leisure activity only the wealthy can afford.