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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
I am honored to contribute to this issue of Dcedalus, "What Humanists Do."' Each contributor was asked by guest editor Denis Donoghue to identify a text that has meant much to her or him. then discuss it. This assignment presupposes that humanists spend much of their time interpreting texts and promoting their circulation among their students. readers of their scholarship, and the general public. It is as though we contributors were asked, "Come on now, account for your activities as humanists. Tell us what you do. Tell us why what humanists do contributes to the public good!" I promise further on to give such an accounting for my own work. First, however, I need to make a few preliminary remarks.
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