Shame, Shame

‘The late Barney Cohen, a longtime colleague at the University of Chicago, was once asked how he felt about his dual membership in the departments of anthropology and history. Cohen is supposed to have replied that it did not matter which discipline you identified with, just so long as you were properly ashamed of it.’
— James Chandler, ‘Introduction: Doctrines, Disciplines, Discourses, Departments’ Critical Inquiry 35 (2009), p. 734.

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