Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read
“The universal Western canon has all the attraction, grandiosity, and absurdity of a myth.”
Because it is a myth. It is a construct that brings together these texts that are not inherently of themselves “western”. They become “western” only when we place them into a category we have constructed called “western.” There is a fundamental difference between the works themselves and later uses of them. The works were not western in their writing, but only in their later use.
