Why Read "Primary Texts"?
On George Steiner, Daniel Bessner, Theology, and the Culture Wars
George Steiner says that in his utopia, he would ban all reviews, all secondary literature. The newspapers would tell us where to go to find works of art and thought, but would suspend their evaluations (and paraphrases) so as to empower us to have our own, unmediated encounter with them.
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