Being Brought Up In A Culture Is

In The End, The Humanities Can Only Be Defended By Stressing How Indispensable They Are; And This Means Insisting On Their Vital Role In The Whole Business Of Academic Learning, Rather Than Protesting That, Like Some Poor Relation, They Don't Cost Much To Be Housed.

Post-structuralism Is Among Other Things A Kind Of Theoretical Hangover From The Failed Uprising Of ‘68, A Way Of Keeping The Revolution Warm At The Level Of Language, Blending The Euphoric Libertarianism Of That Moment With The Stoical Melancholia Of Its Aftermath.

An Enlightened Trust In The Sovereignty Of Human Reason Can Be Every Bit As Magical As The Exploits Of Merlin, And A Faith In Our Capacity For Limitless Self-improvement Just As Much A Wide-eyed Superstition As A Faith In Leprechauns.

It Is True That Some Liberals And Humanists, Along With The Laid-back Danes, Deny The Existence Of Evil. This Is Largely Because They Regard The Word 'evil' As A Device For Demonising Those Who Are Really Nothing More Than Socially Unfortunate.

Deconstruction Insists Not That Truth Is Illusory But That It Is Institutional.