Harvard Professor Accidentally Illustrates How His Kind Has Destroyed The Humanities by Ryan Hammill

Harvard Professor Accidentally Illustrates How His Kind Has Destroyed The Humanities by Ryan Hammill

With this sentence, Simpson supplies the asinine creed for the modern study of the humanities. The purpose of art, he says, is to “hear the voices repressed by official forms of a given culture.” That’s not a side benefit. It’s not an occasional consequence of studying art. It’s the whole point. One could wonder why Simpson is taking such half-measures at Harvard. If hearing repressed voices is truly the central purpose of literature and art, should not Simpson ensure that every Harvard class in the humanities fulfills the “marginalization requirement”?

This professor perfectly C.S. Lewis admonition about trying to "look through" everything. We look through windows to see what's beyond. But what if we looked through the window as well. Pretty soon we are left with nothing material. Everything is translucent. We end up in bizarro world. Pretty much where we are now.