Miscellaneously relevant to Pynchon very likely

[Mark Kohut]

Their [ mid-century cultural thinkers] thorough reviews of the modern period to find a flaw or a definite, earlier moment of decision about man's nature--in fairly fixed, endlessly reiterated comparative histories of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries--spoke insistently to the question of the Enlightenment and their idea of its repair.
                          ----mark greif, the age of the crisis of man 1933-1973

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