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Partly this is due to his admiration of Emerson as an American "seer," a fellow strong misreader whose habits of thought provided the true source of pragmatism.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

Andrew Marr This book, Orwell's Victory, seems, you'll tell me if this is true, to be written in, with a sense of some anger against two particular groups of people, one the kind of left wing attackers, Raymond Williams who was a shameful communist misreader of

Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell 2002

Or else they may all be commiserating over their tragic life circumstances when a social misreader comes by and tells a joke—flagrant misreading and mismatching of moods, an early adolescent big-time taboo.

A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

Or else they may all be commiserating over their tragic life circumstances when a social misreader comes by and tells a joke—flagrant misreading and mismatching of moods, an early adolescent big-time taboo.

A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

The New Testament had said nothing _directly_ upon the question of slavery; nay, by the misreader it was rather supposed _indirectly_ to countenance that institution.

Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

Through a series of careful analyses, he maintains that Derrida was sometimes a brilliant misreader of the philosophical tradition and often an egregious one.

Tablet Magazine David Kaufmann 2010

It seems to me that the only evidence you have in favor of construing Zizek as a brutal misreader of Kierkegaard is the fact that Lenin, in real life, is a utilitarian.

An und für sich 2009

The argument goes that it's better to be wrong in a new and interesting way than to be wrong in the same way as everybody else: this is the stance of the productive misreader, who would rather be insightful than

Everything2 New Writeups 2009

8 In this respect, Schiller is not simply a misreader of

Notes on 'Aesthetic Violence and the Legitimacy of Reading Romanticism' 2005