The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory genius o….

Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the….

All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realis….

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence..