The Contempt felt by Left Intellectuals towards their peers (Re: A 'Bad Writer' Bites Back by Judith Butler)

[Carl Remick]

> And certain 'to help people at large understand the rights 
> and responsibilities
> that they have as social and political beings' is *not* the 
> 'object' of the
> literary/cultural critic -- that's literature/culture.

You're splitting hairs,  Catherine.  The critic helps to catalyze the
public understanding of rights and responsibilities that art promotes.

Carl Remick