The doom that came to Middlesex
29Apr10
Having just returned home from work I am late to hear that Middlesex has decided to terminate every component of its philosophy program. Posts abound with Nina already cataloging the response here. It is hard to believe that such a program could be so carelessly obliterated at the hands of academic bean counters but alas…capitalist realism strikes again.
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This is a travesty. When will humanity realize it needs the humanities? Pragmatic educational perspectives have become a paradigm that threatens the future of humanism itself. Corporatist decision makers are digging a hole so deep there will eventually be no way out…