Kate Elliott’s Reviews > A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960 > Status Update

god, I love the tone of this. so much of it is “ha ha, sweetie, no.”

author understands philosophy is the dumbest smart thing, the smartest dumb thing, useless and also absolutely necessary

I think this is the right stance and I feel exactly the same way about literature… even and *especially* as an active poet…