January 15, 2023
"Philosophy is not the only subject that has been 'scientized' by the modern university: literature has been shrunk to 'literary theory', music has been colonized by set theory, Schenkerian analysis, and generative linguistics, and architecture has been all but abolished by engineering. Pretended science has driven honest speculation from the intellectual economy, just as bad money drives out good. This Gresham's law of the intellect operates wherever university teachers in the humanities exchange knowledge and imagination for the chimera of scientific 'research'."
--Roger Scruton, 1996, "An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy."
It goes back to the government funding and the drive for "STEM" which in reality was a drive to subvert science to the service of the Progressives. The arts and humanities died with it.
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