Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Dante Lectures on Youtube

Humanities departments in ivy league universities are rightly coming under attack due to their being colonized in totalitarian fashion by professors who seem only interested in promoting critical theory. However, not every professor is a far left radical whose only purpose in lecturing is the dismantling of his or her students' traditional beliefs. One can still find teachers who seem to love their subject and want nothing more than to make it accessible to students.

Take these Youtube lectures on Dante, for instance. I have not watched all of them, but the professor seems genuinely interested in Dante as an artist with things to say to us. He is not concerned with dismantling Dante simply as a dead white male who speaks in a Eurocentric voice of patriarchal oppression.