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- From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense…
- [F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably…
- What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how…
- Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride…
- You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
- It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the…
- I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
- The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.
- If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research…
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