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C.J. Herington: an homage

by Roger Kimball

Anyone who sets out to predict any aspect of future society must begin by acknowledging that we are now in the midst of a cultural transition compared to which the transitions from oral to written literature, and from manuscript to print, may prove to have been quite minor affairs.
—C. J. Herington

When the British-born classicist John Herington died suddenly in April at the age of 72, another irreplaceable light went out in the academic firmament. It was not, I hasten to add, a light that the public, even the academic public, knew much about. For although John had long ago earned the respect and admiration of his peers, the affection and gratitude of his students, he never achieved anything like the celebrity that has been lavished upon such academic mountebanks as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. Indeed, although he may fairly be said to have enjoyed a distinguished career—replete with ho ...

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Roger Kimball is co-Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. His latest book is The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art (Encounter Books).


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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 15 May 1997, on page 12

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