Writing: The Political Test

by Claude Lefort

Book Overview

Writing involves risks--the risk that one will be misunderstood, the risk of being persecuted, the risks of being made a champion for causes in which one does not believe, this risk of inadvertently supporting a reader's prejudices, to name a few. In trying to give expression to what is true, the writer must "clear a passage within the agitated world of passions," an undertaking that always to some extent fails: writers are never the master of their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822325209
• ISBN13: 9780822325208
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.3"