/lit/ - Literature

>>7286838

So what? It should be covered. Just like Thucydides should be covered. Just like Ibn Khaldun.
What is it with /lit/ continuously not getting the fucking point?

>yeah but i think das dumb 'n so not the Current Year hhaha so y bother

If you wanna study history decently, you got to fucking know there was an era where people sought grand narratives and what those narratives constituted.

>>7286830

I agree. But I also am sceptic about this extreme cross/interdisciplinary position whereby everyone seems to think all the disciplines in the humanities are basically one huge melting pot and it doesn't really matter where we put each figure, just because it overlaps.
There's value to having specializations. Especially for history.

>>7251836
>It's good because I agree with it
Sounds like fans of someone I know

>>7240688

>y do ppl still do stuff from 1789 in 2015

This is what you sound like.

It's not 'dated' then.. That's like saying Christianity is archaic and should be abandoned because it's 2000 years old. And that there is no agreed upon standard, because everywhere Christianity is different.

What ideas shouldn't you be contemplating or working out anymore in the current year?