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transcended, or if not transcended than ameliorated. They regarded a
disalienated condition as at least a possibility for human beings. This
seems to be not the case for the formalists and for most of the
structuralists and their followers, who appear to regard alienation as
permanent or built into the human condition, a state from which there
is no recourse (I am returning here to my original point). This latter
view would hence tend to deny the very historicity of the category of
experience known as estrangement or alienation, and this in itself is a
normative judgment of the gravest and most weighty sort.
So it does seem to me that there are generally opposing sides and
antagonism here, that there is a substantive set of differences at stake,
which appear in the form of cultural issues, that have themselves world
and social bearings, which are in turn connected with notions of what
one's personal being should be like, which themselves refer back to
certain notions of literary and critical style and preference. 1 do not
think that one is compelled to take immediate sides in this encounter,
but 1 do think that we ought to be aware that the sides are there to be
taken and that probably, sooner or later, they will have to be taken .
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