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John Edward Williams' 1965 novel "Stoner" warrants careful examination as a reflection of institutional power structures and generational transitions in American academia. The work's portrayal of academic culture and authority raises important questions about how educational institutions navigate change and difference. The text's positioning within academia deserves particular scrutiny, especially regarding its relationship to intellectual …

Sophisticated sociopolitical arguments are seeded through this book – about sex differences, elitism, the nature and purpose of universities, and freedom of conscience – but none of these viewpoints are expressed by Angel, although we infer that he generally agrees with their conservative-reactionary tenor. There are shrewd observations of today’s cry-bully tendencies, with their manic …

Dangerous Liaisons- a man carrying a woman who looks to have fainted.

“When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.” ― Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses   In the novel Dangerous Liaisons, which shocked the French public with its depiction of the cruelty and degeneracy of the nobility, two aristocrats plot to corrupt a teenage girl who is …

Wisdom involves two elements: (i) gaining insight into the way of things, that is, the objective structure of reality or what the Greeks would call the Logos, and (ii) learning to shape our lives in conformity with this objective order.