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Tag Archives: the humanities
THE MASKS OF GOD by Joseph Campbell – a Never-ending Story
I don’t usually post reviews here, but Joseph Campbell and his luminous learning and erudition continue to stun me even after my years as a graduate student–and that’s a long time ago. He inspired my master’s thesis, “Emily Dickinson and … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Reading
Tagged anthropology, Joseph Campbell, Masks of God, myth, mythology, Religion and Spirituality, the humanities
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Is Digital Reading Eroding Our Ability to Think and Reason?
“READING IS A BRIDGE TO THOUGHT” – close reading, that is…. This is a very interesting article from the New Yorker that validates an intuition and suspicion I’ve had for a while, and it’s something that’s been needling me for … Continue reading
Posted in Reading
Tagged digital reading, neurology, online, reading, reading comprehension, texting, the humanities, the New Yorker
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Why major in humanities? Not just for a good job — for a good life–today’s WASHINGTON POST
Thank God, someone wrote a cogent, well-informed and supported piece about this (so I don’t have to). If you want to be a one dimensional moron, go for the money and a tech or highly specialized job. If you want … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Literature, Rants, writing
Tagged critical thinking, education, Emerson, Humanities, jobs, Literature, Montaigne, Plato, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Socrates, the good life, the humanities
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