It is hard to teach humanities--which is like searching/deliberately ignoring the possibility in creating/disclosing impossibility.
(sorry cannot think of any other terms more effecitive than the Derridian much-misused ones.)
I appreciate much that Stanley did a comprehensive answer to the responses to his initial article. Several potent reflections are given like "that simultaneously reports a resolution and undermines it," or
"the greater satisfaction is the opportunity to marvel at what a few people are able to do with the language we all use," or
"the truth is that a mastery of literary and philosophical texts and the acquisition of wisdom (in whatever form) are independent variables."
The concession that humanities as their own achievement and their own good refute instrumentality is an issue of the saying, rather than the said.
One thing kindles my interest to him after the reading : Stanley shifts his pleasure from "something like an athletic satisfaction" to the closing phrase of "moments of aesthetic wonderment."
