Readers are a particular form of publication.
Those who edit them will usually adopt one of two strategies. Either material will be arranged in a thematic order, placing together the thoughts of a great thinker on various subjects, or the editors will choose an historical approach, allowing the reader to see the thoughts of a great thinker unfold in time. While the former strategy gives us access to a thinkers stance on particular issues, it runs the risk of not alerting the reader to the possibility of development, even radical change in a thinker's stance, of harmonising what are really divergent positions. Wisely, the Morellis have chosen the latter strategy, giving us a chronological selection of Lonergan's writings beginning with Insight and moving on to articles which appeared in the later 70's and early 80's. However such a strategy raises its own question, that of the criteria of selection, a matter I shall return to later in this review.