Intellectuals, we're going to have a blast!

Le Regard Libre N° 48 - Giovanni F. Ryffel

Scientists and humanists: two separate worlds? The former are often unaware that they are intellectuals in spite of themselves, as Sartre put it, while the latter are easily reduced to the category of «literary», as if other disciplines hardly existed. But how did we get here? Is this the only possible distinction?

When you study, you get the impression that, broadly speaking, some people have their noses in mathematical formulae and their heads in a vise of rigid exams, while the others, the «letterers», simply have their heads in the moon and at most their hands in the pockets of a corduroy jacket... only if they feel they've achieved the status of successful nerd, of course! But this vision is true onto