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<blockquote data-quote="KevinM" data-source="post: 395109" data-attributes="member: 2318"><p>It seems hilariously funny to me now, but years, no, decades ago, I taught English lit at a school that tried "team teaching" the humanities. Seems like a great idea, yes? Maybe not so much. The philosophers had little use for characterization, plot, dialogue, conflict, resolution or any other familiar conventions of fiction. They simply appropriated conceptual content and would expound on it. They believed fiction writers were sending coded messages that only philosophers could understand. I'd interject something like, "But there's no reason to believe this author ever read Plato, and surely every reference to a cave is not a Platonic allusion." "Oh,that doesn't matter," they'd assure me and plunge ahead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KevinM, post: 395109, member: 2318"] It seems hilariously funny to me now, but years, no, decades ago, I taught English lit at a school that tried "team teaching" the humanities. Seems like a great idea, yes? Maybe not so much. The philosophers had little use for characterization, plot, dialogue, conflict, resolution or any other familiar conventions of fiction. They simply appropriated conceptual content and would expound on it. They believed fiction writers were sending coded messages that only philosophers could understand. I'd interject something like, "But there's no reason to believe this author ever read Plato, and surely every reference to a cave is not a Platonic allusion." "Oh,that doesn't matter," they'd assure me and plunge ahead. [/QUOTE]
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