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Of what use are the humanities? (1 Viewer)

bwendan

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Will the Humanities Save Us? - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com

The Uses of the Humanities, Part Two - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com

Stanley Fish is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and a professor of law at Florida International University, in Miami, and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins and Duke University. He is the author of 10 books. His new book on higher education, "Save the World On Your Own Time," has just been published.
 

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What's the point of all your threads?
 

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The humanities will save me from getting bored in my engineering program.
 

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The humanities will allow me to eloquently fill out a Centrelink form.
 

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Are you stupid? If there weren't humanities degrees then there would be nobody qualified to teach humanities.
 

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