Social science and humanities. . . have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on … - Allan Bloom

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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.

Allan Bloom

Social science and humanities. . . have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding the former as philistine. . . . The difference comes down to the fact that social science really wants to be predictive, meaning that man is predictable, while the humanities say that he is not.

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