The Drone Philosopher
“What are the humanities good for?” — will be intrigued by the almost therapeutic vocational definition he gives in his article: “The job of philosophy,” he writes, “is not to create existential crises but to handle or work through existential responsibility.” The philosopher is here to serve! For the philosopher, unless he’s Diogenes the barrel-dwelling Cynic, must also buy his bread in the agora, or obtain it from a patron, or from the state . . .
.. Genovese saw a genteel, conservative elite, averse to social change and hateful of the commerce and economic development that brought such change
.. His history—like all histories, in one way or another—used actors from the past to restage the drama of its own times.