Wild Oscar
November 15, 2004 ·
Edward T. Oakes S.J., Magazine, Books and Arts
The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde
The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde
From one point of view, the fact that the twentieth century's most important philosopher is also its most notorious is of no importance. As the famous scholar of medieval philosophy, Etienne Gilson, once observed, everything in the history of philosophy that can be traced to history is irrelevant…