Russell Berman Quote

Periodization is the disciplinary strategy with which the present establishes its rule over all time and encourages conformism, to the detriment of autonomy, individual and aesthetic.


p. 20. - Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty and Western Culture (2007)


Periodization is the disciplinary strategy with which the present establishes its rule over all time and encourages conformism, to the detriment of...

Periodization is the disciplinary strategy with which the present establishes its rule over all time and encourages conformism, to the detriment of...

Periodization is the disciplinary strategy with which the present establishes its rule over all time and encourages conformism, to the detriment of...

Periodization is the disciplinary strategy with which the present establishes its rule over all time and encourages conformism, to the detriment of...