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Rory:

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literature criticism books: i like to read a lot too and im not knocking anyone who has gone into english or literature or whatever for their studies at school. but i think there is a higher percentage of pseudointellectual people in english and literature fields than any other field.

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As someone who has done some work in this field (e.g. I worked with Harold Bloom on a junior thesis paper) I wholeheartedly agree with you.

Those who are approaching literary criticism with a strong grounding in other disciplines (history / sociology / econ whatever) have a better chance of not being completely full of [censored].

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also it's not cool to be contrary, and you are probably one of those contrary people in arguments. that is very boring and wastes everyones time.

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This is the number one reason to hate Ayn Rand disciples, imo.

-Al

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Off the top of my head, I'd put sociology, women's studies, and art criticism far ahead of English for pseudointellectual baloney -- and large parts of psychology too.