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user-inactivated  ·  1767 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Academic Apocalypse: The crisis of English departments is also a crisis of faith.

Really? I'm not asking that to be rude, I'm genuinely curious. The back drop to that comment involves history and culture and language and I thought all of those things are part of "humanities."





kleinbl00  ·  1767 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Anthropology and archeology aren't the humanities. They are the soft sciences.

The humanities teach you that The Iliad is valuable while the Rubayyat is not because white people are superior.