[lbo-talk] Hard boiled philosophy

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sun May 14 14:31:19 PDT 2006



>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
>
>... Chandler thought the
>Commies were a joke and mostly hated the rich as
>phonies, but his depiction of capitalist society,
>leaving out accounts of actual production, is one that
>Marx would largely applaud.

Chandler was basically a Romantic, offering this often-cited portrait of the private eye as knight-errant in a corrupt modern society: ""Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness." (From "The Simple Art of Murder")

Carl



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