Dear list,
I have been wondering of late about TSE's
reputation.
Certainly it has been pretty degraded, but I'm
hoping that there will be an upswing. Do you see this happening?
What do you see as the conventional
wisdom on TSE?
After all of the critiques aimed at his dead
white male-ness, what do we do? Do we simply stop reading texts
written by "bad" people? We know that he was (possibly)a
misogynist, an anti-Semite, a devout Christian, an alcoholic
smoker, etc.etc. But--to be brief--so what?
Best to all,
Jacque
