We Don't Know What We Think Until

I Don't Feel That An Atmosphere Of Debate And Total Disagreement And Argument Is Such A Bad Thing. It Makes For A Vital And Alive Field.

I Was Trained In The '50s As A New Critic. I Remember What Literature Was Like Before The New Critics, When People Stood Up And Talked About Shelley's Soul And Such Things

Believing, With Max Weber, That Man Is An Animal Suspended In Webs Of Significance He Himself Has Spun, I Take Culture To Be Those Webs, And The Analysis Of It To Be Therefore Not An Experimental Science In Search Of Law But An Interpretive One In Search Of Meaning.

What We Call Our Data Are Really Our Own Constructions Of Other People’s Constructions Of What They And Their Compatriots Are Up To.

Cultural Analysis Is Intrinsically Incomplete. And, Worse Than That, The More Deeply It Goes The Less Complete It Is.