The Kantian Imperative To Have The Courage

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 Centre Of His Moral Vision. Values Associated With The Feminine Begin To Infiltrate Social Existence As A Whole, Rather Than Being Confined To The Domestic Sphere.

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.

Irish Fiction Is Full Of Secrets, Guilty Pasts, Divided Identities. It Is No Wonder That There Is Such A Rich Tradition Of Gothic Writing In A Nation So Haunted By History.

Literature Transforms And Intensifies Ordinary Language, Deviates Systematically From Everyday Speech.

Historical Determinism Is A Recipe For Political Quietism.