A Well-known Magazine Asks A Man How They Should Refer To Him, As Psychologist X, As Author X? He Suggests Man Of Letters, For That Is What He Is, In The Eighteenth-century Meaning. But They Can't Buy That Because The Word Doesn't Exist In Time-style; He Cannot Be That, And Presumably The Old Function Of Letters Cannot Exist.

-Paul Goodman

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A Well-known Magazine Asks A Man How

Paul Goodman

A Well-known Magazine Asks A Man How They Should Refer To Him, As Psychologist X, As Author X? He Suggests Man Of Letters, For That Is What He Is, In The Eighteenth-century Meaning. But They Can't Buy That Because The Word Doesn't Exist In Time-style; He Cannot Be That, And Presumably The Old Function Of Letters Cannot Exist.

Topic

Men

Style

Magazines

The Aim Is Not To Give Human Beings Real Goals That Warrant Belief, And Tasks To Share In, But To Re-establish "belonging," Although This Kind Of Speech And Thought Is Precisely Calculated To Avoid Contact And So Makes Belonging Impossible.

Real

Giving

Goal