Reveiwing sentences and their effects

Philosopher Simon Blackburn writes an insightful and elegant review of Stanley Fish's book about writing and reading sentences.  The review is a joy to read for its well crafted prose, for its engagement with the substance of Fish's book, and for the ways it advances the ideas lurking in Fish's work.

Here is one sentence from Blackburn that illustrates his philosophical extension of Fish's position: If we cannot move peoples' souls, we cannot move their ways of living either." 

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