Wednesday, September 06, 2023

 

A Grotesque Fault

Arnaldo Momigliano, quoted in Peter Brown, "Arnaldo Dante Momigliano, 1908-1987," Proceedings of the British Academy 74 (1988) 405-442 (at 418):
It is one of the grotesque faults of our specialised culture that one is disgraced if one ignores the latest German dissertation, but can easily get away without knowledge of St. Augustine or Machiavelli.



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