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Charles Dickens, morality, ethics, and utilitarianism

January 31, 2019 Carlton Clark

Any sign of moral didacticism ruins art, if art is understood as its own autonomous social system. Art, in this sense, cannot be the servant of religion, education, philosophy, science any other kind of communication. These other systems can only use art parasitically.

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Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons

December 21, 2018 Carlton Clark

The novel as a genre, particularly as written by Turgenev, is all about the study of individuals–what makes people different, not what makes them similar.

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