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I'd have to agree, it's a slightly misleading title. This part was the most interesting to me: "Notably, few of the many studies were performed by interdisciplinary teams. While both ph…
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Stephen Greenblatt is a great scholar but "The Swerve" is a deeply problematic book. At any rate, the comments in this thread are conflating two very different things: 1) humanistic learning…
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That bit about literacy doesn't strike me as accurate. Granted, it's almost impossible to measure historical literacy so anyone debating it is dealing in very broad strokes, but literacy rat…