A case for literary critics and other humanists to stop wallowing in their aestheticized helplessness and instead turn to poetry, comedy, and love.
What if, instead, we dared to love poetry, to choose comedy over Hamlet\'s tragedy, or to pursue romance over Benjamin\'s suicide on the edge of France, of Europe, and of civilization itself? Paul A.
Critics have spent decades stewing in his melancholy.
Literary criticism is an agent of despair, and its poster child is Walter Benjamin.
A case for literary critics and other humanists to stop wallowing in their aestheticized helplessness and instead turn to poetry, comedy, and love