"...when the chairperson of the Barnard philosophy department, in which I was then teaching, suggested that I take over the course titled 'Seventeenth-Century Rationalism: Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz,' I agreed, mostly because I was a young assistant professor who found it pragmatic to agree with most of the suggestions of my chairperson."Rebecca Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza
I love dry wit, but you hardly ever get to hear any anymore.
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