July 25, 2008

Gone, and Being Forgotten

By RUSSELL JACOBY

Why are some of the greatest thinkers being expelled from their disciplines?

How is it that Freud is not taught in psychology departments, Marx is not taught in economics, and Hegel is hardly taught in philosophy? Instead these masters of Western thought are taught in fields far from their own. Nowadays Freud is found in literature departments, Marx in film studies, and Hegel in German. But have they migrated, or have they been expelled? Perhaps the home fields of Freud, Marx, and

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