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irrational and the non-logical in much modern discussion is
merely the rediscovery of the ordinary transactions between
the self and the world, or between subject and object. Such
transactions had seemed to end with the effects of phonetic
literacy in the Greek world. Literacy had made of the
enlightened individual a closed system, and set up a gap
between appearance and reality which ended with such
discoveries as the stream of consciousness.
As Joyce expressed it in the Wake , “My consumers are
they not my producers?” Consistently, the twentieth century
has worked to free itself from the conditions of passivity, which
is to say, from the Gutenberg heritage itself. And this dramatic
struggle of unlike modes of human insight and outlook has
resulted in the greatest of all human ages, whether in the arts
or in the sciences. We are living in a period richer and more