audience, "behind that Jekyll
mask you're a Hyde-Monsieur
Hyde. You're afraid to reveal
yourself, but you can't hide.
Look! He's afraid to show his
face!" Corso reached for the
doctor's pants.
"I insist you control your–
self," the doctor hissed, and
resumed the discussion with his
colleague.
"Moloch - that's who you
are!" Corso was shouting at the
top of his voice. "Wine-sipping
Mesmer! ... Vitamin Karloff!
... Camembert Caligari! You
dissect people so you can hold
their souls in your rubber–
gloved hands and crush them,
just like you want to crush me
because I can still feel! . . .
Moloch! Rimbaud-killer! Sta–
tus-seeking Faustus!"
Corso
poked the doctor in the shoul–
der. "Look, doctor, we'll see
who's hiding, all right?" He
yanked at his own trousers and
was stopped at the last moment
by the doctor. Several women
shrieked.
"This
is
vulgar - stupid,
childish vulgarity!" The doc–
tor's face had paled, and his
voice quaked with anger.
"See?" Corso addressed the
crowd. "He's the one that's
afraid. He's hiding. I'll bet he'r>
the one that always made sissie
in his pants in the first grade.
How you say in French, pee–
pee?" The remark went un-
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A SPLENDID PIECE OF PHILO–
SOPHICAL POLEMIC WHICH NOBODY
INTERESTED IN THE SUBJECT OUGHT
TO IGNORE."
-New Statesman
WORDS
AND
THINGS
A Critical Account of Linguistic
Philosophy and a Study in Ideology
by ERNEST GELLNER
With an Introduction
by
Bertrand Russell
. . . I find myself in very close agree–
ment with Mr. Gellner's doctrines . . •
it
seems highly probable that they
will
gradually be accorded their due weight."
-Bertrand Russell
". . . a most lively and effective attack
on tbe dominant school of British philoso–
phy. It has yet to be adequately answered
by a member of that school."
-The Observer
Gellner's
Words and Things
is dili–
gent and thorough. In the first part
of the book he states and slashes
the basic arguments of his op–
ponent school .... contends that
linguistic philosophers are limited
to the trivial analysis of ordinary
language . . . uninterested
in
the
larger concepts of the universe–
ideas, science, human problems. The
later chapters examine the motiva–
tions and sociological backgrounds
of contemporary linguistic philos–
ophers.
CI. •
•
a major event in contemporary in–
tellectual history. Gellner not only offers
a brilliant critique of one of the most
representative philosophical schools of our
time, but he also reveals the ideology in–
herent in
its
method and intent. . . ."
-Herbert Marcuse
Author of Eros and Civilitation
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