Dissent as a Personal Experience

Dissent as a Personal Experience

My experience of dissent is extremely individual, even though, like any personal experience, it reflects in some way broader, more general, and more ramified developments, and not only the events of my own life. I have never belonged to any dissident movement or dissident community, and my heterodoxy has manifested itself not in public activity but exclusively in my writing; moreover, in a kind of writing that initially was esoteric, stylistically obscure for the general public, and not meant...


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