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Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, whi...more

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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly co...more

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The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a tactful publican, it has as few opinions as possibl...more

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If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them.

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After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

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What Althusser does… is to rethink the concept of ideology in terms of Lacan’s ‘imaginary’. For the relation of an individual subject to society as a ...more

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Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

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There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it has been there from the beginning. I mean by the pol...more

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What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations as a whole ...more

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Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious complicity with them, betraying its elitism, sexi...more

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Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

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Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.