Scholars Debate Whether 'Feel' Has Killed Rationalists' 'Think'
Israel Shenker's account of a Theatre of Ideas debate, 'The End of the Rationalist Tradition?', with Mailer, Leslie Fiedler, Peter Gay, and Jean Malaquais.
An article by Israel Shenker — an account of a Theatre of Ideas debate, “The End of the Rationalist Tradition?”, moderated by Conor Cruise O’Brien with Robert Lowell as timekeeper. The debaters — Mailer, Leslie Fiedler, Peter Gay, and Jean Malaquais — are all quoted.