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Philip Roth (1933- )

Philip Roth (1933- ). The Human Stain (2000). “The ecstasy of sanctimony” “The tyranny of propriety”. 1990s Culture Wars. Bill Clinton. Pat Buchanan. Multiculturalism. “Ours is a late-twentieth century world profoundly fissured by nationality, ethnicity, race, class, and gender.”

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Philip Roth (1933- )

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  1. Philip Roth (1933- )

  2. The Human Stain (2000)

  3. “The ecstasy of sanctimony” “The tyranny of propriety”

  4. 1990s Culture Wars Bill Clinton Pat Buchanan

  5. Multiculturalism “Ours is a late-twentieth century world profoundly fissured by nationality, ethnicity, race, class, and gender.” “But if multiculturalism represents the culmination of an age-old ideal—the dream known, in the seventeenth century, as mathesisuniversalis—why has it been the target of such ferocious attacks?” -Loose Canons, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  6. “Cultural pluralism is not, of course, everyone’s cup of tea. Vulgar cultural nationalists—like Allan Bloom and Leonard Jeffries—correctly identify it as the enemy.” –Loose Canons, Gates

  7. “Of course she had the credentials. But to Coleman she embodied the sort of prestigious academic crap that the Athena students needed like a hole in the head but whose appeal to the faculty second-raters would prove irresistible.” *** “A student who tells me that I speak to her in ‘engendered language’ is beyond being assisted by me.” -The Human Stain, 190-91

  8. “To become a new being. To bifurcate. The drama that underlies America’s story, the high drama that is upping and leaving—and the energy and cruelty that rapturous drive demands.” –Roth, The Human Stain (342)

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