Letter: Unfair cultural caricatures of Leavis the `Luddite'

The Independent - London | March 26, 1994| | Copyright

Sir: Frederic Raphael ("When the English don went nuclear", 24 March) may not like the criticisms F. R. Leavis made of C. P. Snow, but he ought at least to give an accurate account of them. His caricature of Leavis, as a bilious chair-craving academic incapable of having a thought which D. H. Lawrence had not already had, is as distorted as it is irrelevant, and need not be laboriously rebutted. More seriously misleading is his statement - echoing Snow's jibe at "Luddites" - that Leavis regarded it as the responsibility of a humane education to "resist, if not prevent, the very technological ...

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