Gary Saul Morson, Professor of Slavic Languages at Northwestern - TopicsExpress



          

Gary Saul Morson, Professor of Slavic Languages at Northwestern University, writing a few years ago about the 20th century: We live at the end of a terrible century, one that has witnessed the horrors produced by utopians in power. We have seen the unprecedented tyranny practiced by those who, believing they possess the key to history, imagine their values to be final. In their world without loopholes, they admit no sideshadows. I think there has been too little serious reflection about what is wrong with this style of thinking. It seems to me that the 21st century is off to an inauspicious start, if our intent is to avoid the tragedies of the 20th.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 02:01:15 +0000

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