Wisdom Matters: Reading Literature for a Wiser World

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Some moments in human history are clearly wiser than others. In politics, and in social life more generally, ours seems strikingly unwise.

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Who’s Afraid of Wisdom?

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Before moving on, I would like to address five ways in which contemporary readers—and academic readers most especially—might be uncomfortable with wisdom as an optic for literary analysis.  

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