"The notion of the decentred subject [is] one of the fattest pieces of rotten French cheese swallowed whole by American academics . . ." (p 180)
"The number one problem today is not ignorant students by ignorant professors who have substituted narrow 'expertise' and 'theoretical sophistication' for breadth and depth of learning in the world history of art and thought." (p. 207)
-Camille Paglia, in Sex, Art, and American Culture
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