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Malcolm Budd • On Responsible Thought

An important part of our attitudes towards other people is determined by the way in which we think of their actions. We think of people as being responsible or not responsi- ble......

Denis Donoghue On Allen Tate

Essays of Four Decades Allen Tate (oup 42s) There is a moment in Allen Tate's novel, The Fathers, when the narrator, Lacy Buchan, says that people living in formal societies,......