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A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as psychologist x, as author x? he suggests man of letters, for that is what he is, in the eighteenth-century meaning. but they can't buy that because the word doesn't exist in time-style; he cannot be that, and presumably the old function of letters cannot exist.
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A Well-known Magazine Asks A Man How

Paul Goodman
A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as psychologist x, as author x? he suggests man of letters, for that is what he is, in the eighteenth-century meaning. but they can't buy that because the word doesn't exist in time-style; he cannot be that, and presumably the old function of letters cannot exist.
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