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The Skeptic Disposition In Contemporary Criticism, 2014, p.16
Ort / Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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In a review of the Rockefeller Foundation report onThe Humanities in American Life, Hilton Kramer remarks that “we are a long way here from Matthew Arnold’s notion of trying ‘to know the best that is known and thought in the world.’ ” And he ruefully observes that “Arnold’s name … is never mentioned in this report, which so systematically avoids any mention of our classic writers that one is left wondering what this committee has in mind when it speaks of the humanities.”¹ Once the inspiration of humanistic study in England and America, Arnold has now become something of