The present writer contributed recently to another symposium, on the literary theorist E.D. Hirsch's best-seller, Cultural Literacy.1 Like the essay now before us, "Disclosing New Worlds", by Charles Spinosa, Fernando Flores and Hubert Dreyfus (henceforth SFD), Hirsch's book contains more than meets the eye. Each work is driven by roughly the same unspoken agenda. Both eschew polemic, and both, Hirsch's much more openly, are positive, therapeutic responses to the current American mood, whether justified or not, of national self-doubt, guilt, anger and despair.