Edward Said used to make this point, the selection of the canon is an ongoing maintenance project, and at times it requires a reappraisal. To give you an important example, the book I edited is the most comprehensive rebuttal to Machiavelli ever undertaken. You would think it would find a place in political science departments, given the gravity and consequence of Machiavelli's counsel, but actually no, they've completely ignored it for a long time. This is why I'm occasionally so hard on England, they're in charge and they've been handing out this Machiavelli stuff, knowing Shakespeare wrote a rebuttal. I mean, is that diabolical, or what?
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