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Comment author: RomeoStevens 11 June 2012 06:49:38PM 3 points [-]

This is a good inclination. But myy personal take, having written many many research papers for students of the humanities, is that most of it is fairly worthless dreck. The humanities have been strongly influenced by critical theory, to their detriment.

Comment author: TimS 11 June 2012 08:53:56PM 2 points [-]

Most of critical theory is dreck. But most dreck is not critical theory.