Meanings, pt. 4: an awful, dark year
By Michael Tracey In his essay, "The White Negro," Norman Mailer references Marxist thought with a level of respect but pointed to its failure in application because, as he put it, “it was an expression of the scientific narcissism we inherited from the 19th century,” motivated by the “rational mania that consciousness could stifle instinct.”…
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