What is somewhat discomfiting about Percy
as dialectician» and the dialectical is the principal aspect of his fiction, as well as central to his other work, including his interviews» is his seeming inconstancy in holding the advocates of tenderness to account in their various causes, even those separate from euthanasia and abortion, those other causes to which he himself is committed.
The days when an Evelyn Waugh could think his way into Catholicism with the help of a skilled
Jesuit dialectician like Fr.
These «dialogical»
dialecticians do not seem to notice that the dialogic is essentially a way.
(Sam Scovill, our
banned dialectician and «devil» directed me to Hawthorne's «Goodman Brown» the other day.
I am not alone in thinking of Stella as a consummate colorist (and I feel as though I'm too old to like the neon in the later works) but in this pivotal piece he is a
supreme dialectician on the subject.
A few people did — a
certain dialectician you might know as well as a fellow who has been described as the Tom Brokaw of New Zealand.
Yet Updike
the dialectician knows this to be a mixed blessing.
Both dialecticians and modernists like Sartre possess a misguided commitment to formal principles in a world in which ideas are at best, tools — at worst, traps.