
Stephen Greenblatt: The 2016 Holberg Conversation
Holberg Prize Talks
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What Kind of Role Do the Humanities Have?
I think that the humanities have a double role. One is to help you simply enhance your pleasure. We spend our lives living in the midst of fictions, we may not think we do but we do. The number of hours in the day in which you're actually sort of living in fictions is kind of extraordinary and I haven't even mentioned daydreams with people having so isn't it important to try to understand that element of our lives? Wouldn't it make sense that it would be critically important to trying to understand as the humanities tries to understand that aspect of our lives?" He adds: "We'll have to figure out we're almost we're at the brink of being able
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