Ignorant Critics - New Passage
Writing
"Critics of books or drama often use two rather singular arguments. The first consists in suddenly deciding that the true subject of criticism is ineffable, and criticism, as a consequence, unnecessary. The other, which also reappears periodically, consists
in confessing that one is too stupid, too unenlightened to understand a book reputedly philosophical. A play by Henri Lefebvre on Kierkegaard has thus provoked in our best critics a pretended confession of imbecility (the aim of which was obviously to discredit
Lefebvre by relegating him to the ridicule of pure intellectualism)."
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