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- Title
"The Man within the Breast" and the Kingdom of Apollo.
- Authors
Lynch, K.
- Abstract
The internal "impartial spectator," as traced by Emily Chamlee-Wright through the work of Adam Smith, possesses an ability to resist external censors, if mature and self-regulating. Weakness in the "impartial spectator," however, opens the way to incursions of authoritarianism from others. This essay discusses how Geoffrey Chaucer's Manciple's Tale explores this relationship, predicting that a lack of self-control, i.e., a weak "impartial spectator," paradoxically leads to silence. The confusion between self-command and social punishment also explains the dynamics of "privilege" call-out culture today, which has mistaken a tool of self-examination for an instrument of public castigation. The divided, self-observing subject appears to be a transhistorical feature of human psychology, which requires continuing protection and cultivation.
- Publication
Society, 2019, Vol 56, Issue 6, p550
- ISSN
0147-2011
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s12115-019-00414-0