A Hobble for Pegasus

What was to be expected sooner or later has now arrived, an admonition from the social sciences to the humanities to reform their ways. Robert E. Lane’s The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Criticism, and the Civic Mind punctuates with a shot the cold phase of a war long present between the two disciplines.

The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Criticism, and the Civic Mind, by Robert E. Lane. Yale, $3.75

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What was to be expected sooner or later has now arrived, an admonition from the social sciences to the humanities to reform their ways. Robert E. Lane’s The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Criticism, and the Civic Mind punctuates with a shot the cold phase of a war long present between the two disciplines.

The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Criticism, and the Civic Mind, by Robert E. Lane. Yale, $3.75