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Undoing the Self
The Passion of Michel Foucault by James E. Miller Simon & Schuster, 491 pages, $27.50 By 1971, when Dutch TV in the U.S. staged a discussion between Noam Chomsky...
The Question of the Sign
Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man by David Lehman Poseidon Press/Simon & Schuster, 318 pages, $21.95 David Lehman’s book on deconstruction has the...
Ideology Therapy
Wise is he to whom all things taste as they are.—Joseph Pieper The first time the popular use of “pragmatic” registered on me was during the campaign of 1960....
The Philosophical Crusher
We milk the cow of the world, and as we do We whisper in her ear, “You are not true.” —Richard Wilbur “Before we dismantle this imposing structure, let’s step back...
