Эдмунд Уилсон цитаты
Эдмунд Уилсон
Дата рождения: 8. Май 1895
Дата смерти: 12. Июнь 1972
Эдмунд Уилсон — американский литератор и критик, один из самых влиятельных литературоведов США середины XX века.
Президентская медаль Свободы .
Цитаты Эдмунд Уилсон
„Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.“
— Edmund Wilson
To the Finland Station (1940) [Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1972, ], Part I, Ch. 5: Michelet Between Nationalism and Socialism, p. 36
„In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.“
— Edmund Wilson
The Triple Thinkers (1938) [Oxford University Press, 1948], Preface, p. ix
„It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.“
— Edmund Wilson
Memoirs of Hecate County (1946) [New York Review Books Classics, 2004], Ch. 4, p. 136
„Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.“
— Edmund Wilson
Memoirs of Hecate County (1946) [New York Review Books Classics, 2004], Ch. 5, p. 340
Karl Marx, in his Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843-4), wrote "Religion…is the opium of the people" ("Die Religion…ist das Opium des Volkes"). Wilson was not the first writer to turn Marx’s statement on its head: Evelyn Waugh published a review of Harold Laski's Faith, Reason and Civilization in The Tablet, 22nd April 1944, under the headline "Marxism, the Opiate of the People".
In 1955 the French philosopher Raymond Aron wrote a book on Marxism called L'Opium des intellectuels. Hence Wilson's line is often attributed to him.
