Why Literature is Wokewashed
We used to go to great writers for the truth. And it's still there.
What follows are some thoughts aimed at helping humanities students, primarily as an antidote to the woke-washing of literature. Even if all they do is arouse curiosity, they will have succeeded.
Don't take it as a matter of course, but as a remarkable fact, that pictures and fictitious narratives give us pleasure, occupy our minds.
- Wittgenstein, Philo…