Journal of Arts & Ideas, no. 19 (May 1990) p. 75.


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projected as a moral one, where either the intellectual has to strain more or the people have to transform their inadequate understanding in order to be able to grasp what the intellectual is doing. There's something wrong in treating the problem that way; when major burdens are left to the moral initiative of individuals, this means that we haven't politicized that gap enough. And surely we should restrain ourselves, for a while at least, from invoking the moral, until we come to a more powerful way of dealing with, or even recognizing, the gap.

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