Consider the scholar who ‘knows’ that feminine minds are inferior to masculine minds; he spends the

essential part of his life conversing with someone who cannot

understand him: “ What intimacy! What sweetness in the conversations of love! In the couple! In the family! He who is

speaking is never sure of being understood. He has a mind and

a heart, a great mind, a sensitive heart! But the corpse to which

the social chain has attached him, alas!” -Jacques Rancière; The Ignorant Schoolmaster

fulll text:

https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/critique1313/files/2019/10/Ranciere.pdf

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