The Frontier Between Public And Private Shifts

Any Attempt To Define Literary Theory In Terms Of A Distinctive Method Is Doomed To Failure.

Most Poetry In The Modern Age Has Retreated To The Private Sphere, Turning Its Back On The Political Realm.

There Is No Way In Which We Can Retrospectively Erase The Treaty Of Vienna Or The Great Irish Famine. It Is A Peculiar Feature Of Human Actions That, Once Performed, They Can Never Be Recuperated. What Is True Of The Past Will Always Be True Of It.

In Conscious Life, We Achieve Some Sense Of Ourselves As Reasonably Unified, Coherent Selves, And Without This Action Would Be Impossible. But All This Is Merely At The 'imaginary' Level Of The Ego, Which Is No More Than The Tip Of The Iceberg Of The Human Subject Known To Psychoanalysis. The Ego Is Function Or Effect Of A Subject Which Is Always Dispersed, Never Identical With Itself, Strung Out Along The Chains Of The Discourses Which Constitute It.

Rousseau Ranks Among The Great Educational Theorists Of The Modern Era, Even If He Was The Last Man To Put In Charge Of A Classroom. Young Adults, He Thought, Should Be Allowed To Develop Their Capabilities In Their Distinctive Way.