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Too many of these essays reference Cohen only to graft him on to Philosophy 101 discussions of existentialism, ethics, or gnostic theology, a pedagogical technique that was doubtless more effective for the longhaired professors of the early 1970s than it is today. In the most alarming example, ‘Politics in Beautiful Losers’, Steven Burns mansplains New Criticism in order to ‘prove’ that Cohen’s 1966 novel is ‘about’ Canadian politics in the 1960s – and nothing else. Andrew Marzoni reviews Leonard Cohen and Philosophy: review31.co.uk/article/view/290/the-opposite-of-hallelujah
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:37:53 +0000

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