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On the other, Hegel is childishly referred to as "that German philosopher/stringy-haired obligatory reference, " and anything that Magill fears might strike the gentle reader as dry and bookish (such as the history of Western civilization) is'apologized for as "somewhat somnolent but necessary" and treated with a levity patronizing to both the subject and the reader. It apparently does not occur to Magill that this Manichean view of society serves no one so well as the conservatives and robber barons he believes himself to be attacking, who rely upon an alienated and apathetic populace that no longer takes seriously the values of solidarity and political action.
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The Man in the Irony Mask
The Man in the Irony Mask R. Jay Magill Jr. tries his best to defend the Big 'I.' But with friends like these. . . Chic Ironic Bitterness By R. Jay Magill Jr. University of Michigan Press pp. 273, $25.95
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