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In his lecture, Grass seems to be going through the usual motions: anecdotes from the history of literature, references to his youth, material from his own novels, an armchair liberal's criticism of the dehumanizing influence of modern science and the free market, insinuations that the Nobel Prize is really...
Yet what I find most questionable in Grass's interpretation of history is the very old and very false notion that our current problems are the legacy of the Enlightenment, that they are the fault of "cold reason," and that somehow the program of the Enlightenment has proven a failure...
The report on Leonard-Tenney, for example, includes no quotes from people other than Leonard and Tenney. Likewise for Driskell-Burton, where the candidates are the only people quoted--promising, among other things, to keep all their promises.
Contrast this with the profile of Plants-Wikler, where two other people are quoted, as well as that of Darling-Patel, where two opponents are quoted extensively, and the reporters even called up someone at Ohio State. On the other hand, we do not get to find out where Darling...
In all, it is not so much the style of the articles that I am complaining about, but the fact that, clearly, they were not written with equal effort or intent. I can only feel sorry for the Leonard and Driskell camps, whose profiles are exercises in vapidity that can...