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While
we would look in vain in Venetian political writings of this period for
the kind of gleefully subversive assertions of political amoralism we
find in Machiavelli, it is not difficult to find hints in rhetorical
contexts at a differentiated understanding of speech ethics, positing
different criteria for political than for moral or philosophical
discourse. Wright also includes a character much like Svidrigailov
in Hilton, whose function is similarly to threaten the protagonist with
his knowledge of the murders and whose cold-blooded amoralism suggests
the protagonist's duality and participation in evil.
"If only, as when Hitler was flourishing, one knew to which side
one belonged", he wrote to a friend in 1951, "communism with
its infantile amoralism is impossible, but so is any belief in the
future of this corrupt, condemned, late-capitalistic world of
profit. |
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