Tag: Political Theory

• June 17, 2025

  The Quotidian, The Heroic, Or The Heart Of Being?

  Is It Possible To Justify The Quotidian? I recently read the Washington Post critic Michael Dirda’s fine review of Ellmann’s Joyce, a book written by Zachary Leader about Richard Ellmann’s biographical work on the novelist James Joyce. Key to this review is, of course, Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Dirda summarizes: “Ulysses” takes place during one day…