Review #13 of 2023: Future of the Humanities by Walter Kaufmann

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For a book that was written in the 1970s about university humanities departments, this book rang surprisingly clear for my experience in Scientific Academia in the 2020s. Kaufmann’s primary thrust with this book was to ask the question: what is the purpose of humanities? He also attempts to give his own answer to that question, as well as critique the answers of the current system.