Will Self - What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public inte...

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What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.

Will Self

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Was die Briten zu mögen scheinen, sind Fernsehhistoriker und Naturforscher, keine öffentlichen Intellektuellen. Man kann sich nicht helfen lassen, weil der eine Narrativ liefert und der andere Fakten liefert, und die Briten sind traditionell Empiriker, also haben sie einen Widerstand gegen die Theorie und gegen Theoretiker, die im öffentlichen Leben eine zu große Rolle spielen.

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