> The object of the literary/cultural critic is not to enable people to
> understand the periodic table or mathematical theorems; it is (or should
> be) to help people at large understand the rights and responsibilities
> that they have as social and political beings.
Do you teach literature for a living? If so, how do you manage to do the above? If not, why do you assume we litcritters have sole responsibility to save the soul of the global Left?
-- Dennis (adjunct in Comparative Literature)