An interesting aspect of this is the deep roots of Jasper's commentary discourse in romanticism. It is quite natural that he contrasts his approach to a pragmatically-based approach both to texts and to life. His discourse has no significant engagement with the interaction of body and mind characteristic of twentieth-century pragmatic discourse. Rather, it focuses on the reflective, reflexive, creative and self-aware mind that romanticism so beautifully features in its discourse. The major implication I want to evoke is that none of us has the final say on ideology.
Ancient texts are richly textured environments of analysis and interpretation.