Monday, July 25, 2005
Dalrymple Watch
City Journal has the following new essays by Theodore Dalrymple:From the essay on Ibsen:
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The modernity of Ibsen's thought hardly needs further emphasis. The elevation of emotion over principle, of inclination over duty, of rights over responsibilities, of ego over the claims of others; the impatience with boundaries and the promotion of the self as the measure of all things: what could be more modern or gratifying to our current sensibility?