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I felt enlightened by this book. I felt enlightened in particular by the historical threads Ellis weaves together to argue that contemporary literary criticism, with its self-reflective, deeply critical take on works of literature, is merely the latest manifestation of a culture of self-criticism that the West has embraced, and passed through, from Tacitus to Rousseau to Marx to Derrida.
I was persuaded. This is a nuanced argument, unlike other books (The Closing of the American Mind comes to mind) that seem fueled primarily by reactionary backlash.