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