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Where Have I Been, and Where Are “We” Now, in This Profession?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Wayne Booth
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As thousands of original thinkers have repeated, life is always a puzzling mixture of choices and chances. Other thousands, with equal originality, have said that all the choices are really determined—they're not really choices at all. In this view, choice and chance get collapsed—usually to a combination of determining genes and determining culture; only half-educated extremists ever claim that it is only one or the other.

Type
Two Scholars Reflect on Their Careers
Information
PMLA , Volume 109 , Issue 5 , October 1994 , pp. 941 - 950
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1994

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