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What are literary scholars for? What is art for?(Responses)
On May 11 2008 I published an article in the Ideas section of the Sunday Boston Globe called "Measure for Measure." The article was basically a precis of my book Literature, Science, and a New Humanities, and it sounded many of the same themes that dominate Professor Carroll's target article.
Like Carroll, I argued for a fairly radical solution to the malaise in academic literary study: we should study the successes of the sciences and, insofar as possible, we should try to emulate them. Also like Carroll, I did not argue that scientific tools can replace judgment, imagination, erudition, or good scholarship. I argued that combining these humanistic virtues with ...
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