Publisher's Synopsis
A book by the author of "The Heavy Mantled Mind," "The Genius," "Dismally Balanced" and others. The critic Harold Bloom has shrewdly noted in responding to Foucaultians that literary "canons always indirectly serve the social and political, and indeed the spiritual, concerns and aims of the wealthier classes of each generation of Western society." It may be added, of all societies, and as minorities become politically more adept they produce limited "canons," "classics" of their own, --so that those who call themselves the LGBTQ types today have theirs (one of them being Foucault), none yet to match aesthetically Rimbaud and Proust, inverts, whom they don't read: too difficult for them, and it is funny to see journalists, slaves of THEIR own financial masters, echoing their little yelps while in the same "position"-- as the professor does not note, alas. Let us see if after this endeavor whether the "alliance" between art and power, as he says, "never can or will" cease
