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Paglia’s Exaggerations - Blake Smith

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“modesty of demeanor DID NOT WORK”

I’ve got a couple of essays in the pipeline on Camille Paglia, looking at the evolution of her thinking from the early 70s (as she was writing her dissertation) to the late 80s (as she was turning it into Sexual Personae and struggling to get it published). I’ve tried to write about her the way I’ve written about Judith Butler or Julia Kristeva—two other women whose writing gives me suicidal ideation—identifying what I take to be the rational throughline and intellectual-historical context, showing how, aside from the rebarbative aspects of its style or involvement in what now seem obtuse,…

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