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SEDUCTIONS, BETRAYALS, APPRAISALS THE FATE OF IDEAS ROBERT BOYERS THE FATE OF IDEAS SEDUCTIONS BETRAYALS APPRAISALS COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup.columbia.edu Copyright © 2015 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Boyers, Robert. [Essays. Selections] The fate of ideas : seductions, betrayals, appraisals / Robert Boyers. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-231-17380-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-53989-0 (electronic) 1. Philosophy, Modern—20th century. 2. Intellectual life—20th century. 3. Literature, Modern—Themes, motives. I. Title. B29.B69 2015 810.9'0054—dc23 2014042956 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. This book is printed on paper with recycled content. Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cover photograph: Edmund Kesting / © The Cleveland Museum of Art © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Cover design: Lisa Hamm References to websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. FOR PEG BOYERS, ALWAYS AND AGAIN, AND FOR OUR DEAR FRIENDS ORLANDO AND ANITA PATTERSON ❧ CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix [(cid:2)](cid:2)INTRODUCTION(cid:2)1 [ 1 ](cid:2)AUTHORITY(cid:2)11 [ 2 ](cid:2)PLEASURE(cid:2)28 [ 3 ](cid:2)READING FROM THE LIFE(cid:2)51 [ 4 ](cid:2)FIDELITY(cid:2)71 [ 5 ](cid:2)SAVING BEAUTY(cid:2)92 [ 6 ](cid:2)MY “OTHERS”(cid:2)118 [ 7 ](cid:2)POLITICS AND THE NOVEL(cid:2)143 [ 8 ](cid:2)REALISM(cid:2)153 [ 9 ](cid:2)THE SUBLIME(cid:2)166 [ 10 ](cid:2)PSYCHOANALYSIS(cid:2)193 [ 11 ](cid:2)MODERNISM(cid:2)209 [ 12 ](cid:2)JUDGMENT(cid:2)229 Bibliography 249 Index 259 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS G rateful acknowledgment is made to the following pub- lications in which several chapters of this volume first appeared—though in most cases the earlier periodical versions have been substantially altered and enlarged for pur- poses of this book: The New Republic, The Yale Review, Raritan, Virginia Quarterly Review, Agni, Salmagundi, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Common Review, Twentieth Century Literature, The Normal School, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Acknowledgment is also made to the following beloved for- mer students at Skidmore College, who read and responded to chapters-in-progress of this book and inspired me to complete it: Hillary Reder, Catherine Pond, Hilary Reid, Daniel Kraines, Matthew Straus.

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As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century's most transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, Boyers
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