In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.
Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiv...
Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.
In some quarters, and particularly among those who comment on these matters in in political circles or in the media or the blogosphere or other forms of public discussion, there is, without question,...