In The Deep Night Of Metaphysics, All

What Was Needed Was A Literary Theory Which, While Preserving The Formalist Bent Of New Criticism, Its Dogged Attention To Literature As Aesthetic Object Rather Than Social Practice, Would Make Something A Good Deal More Systematic And 'scientific' Out Of All This. The Answer Arrived In 1957, In The Shape Of The Canadian Northrop Fryes Mighty 'totalization' Of All Literary Genres, Anatomy Of Criticism .

All Consciousness Is Consciousness Of Something: In Thinking I Am Aware That My Thought Is 'pointing Towards' Some Object.

One Side-effect Of The So-called War On Terror Has Been A Crisis Of Liberalism. This Is Not Only A Question Of Alarmingly Illiberal Legislation, But A More General Problem Of How The Liberal State Deals With Its Anti-liberal Enemies.

A Socialist Is Just Someone Who Is Unable To Get Over His Or Her Astonishment That Most People Who Have Lived And Died Have Spent Lives Of Wretched, Fruitless, Unremitting Toil.

Men And Women Do Not Easily Submit To A Power That Does Not Weave Itself Into The Texture Of Their Daily Existence - One Reason Why Culture Remains So Politically Vital. Civilisation Cannot Get On With Culture, And It Cannot Get On Without It.