This conservative turn among literary academics focuses just on English as a discipline. It is, as it were, a disciplinary conservativism that asks us to conserve academic English in particular. But it is backed up by a more general tendency across the humanities.
In a similar spirit, Richard Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions (2023) turns to Hegel to propose that the moralism and politicization that now dominate the humanities need to be resisted.
In a similar spirit, Richard Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions (2023) turns to Hegel to propose that the moralism and politicization that now dominate the humanities need to be resisted.
