Adam Gopnik Quote
It is, I think, the journalist’s vice to believe that all history can instantly be reduced to experience: (Pierre, an out-of-work pipe fitter in the suburb of Boulougne, is typical of the new class of chômeurs . . .) just as it is the scholar’s vice to believe that all experience can be reduced to history (The new world capitalist order produced a new class of chômeurs, of whom Pierre, a pipe fitter, was a typical case . . .).
Adam Gopnik
It is, I think, the journalist’s vice to believe that all history can instantly be reduced to experience: (Pierre, an out-of-work pipe fitter in the suburb of Boulougne, is typical of the new class of chômeurs . . .) just as it is the scholar’s vice to believe that all experience can be reduced to history (The new world capitalist order produced a new class of chômeurs, of whom Pierre, a pipe fitter, was a typical case . . .).
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About Adam Gopnik
He is the author of nine books, including Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate, The King in the Window, and A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism. In 2020, his essay "The Driver's Seat" was cited as the most-assigned piece of contemporary nonfiction in the English-language syllabus.