Presentism implies not only a shift toward contemporary material (older material is denounced polemically as tied to dead authors), but an implicit structuring of time as always only a present, without a recollection of its past, without an aspiration to a future.


p. 6. - Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty and Western Culture (2007)

Russell Berman Quotes

Presentism implies not only a shift toward contemporary material (older material is denounced polemically as tied to dead authors), but an implicit...

Presentism implies not only a shift toward contemporary material (older material is denounced polemically as tied to dead authors), but an implicit...

Presentism implies not only a shift toward contemporary material (older material is denounced polemically as tied to dead authors), but an implicit...

Presentism implies not only a shift toward contemporary material (older material is denounced polemically as tied to dead authors), but an implicit...