M.E. Grenander

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Benito Cereno and Legal Oppression: A Szaszian Interpretation

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies M.E. Grenander

To collaborate with an author in perceiving the implied ethical problems he poses and passing a moral judgment on their solution can be, as Wayne Booth has remarked, a heady experience for the...

Of Graver Import Than History: Psychiatry in Fiction

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies M.E. Grenander

In Chapter 9 of the Poetics, Aristotle wrote that "poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of...

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