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Hace 4 días · With his trademark anti-ironic deployment of irony, Wallace annotates the clichés and commonplaces that any speaker in his position is likely to deploy.
Hace 2 días · Participation and communion are obviously permanent characteristics of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church. But doesn’t saying that synodality is ‘the thing that the Lord expects of us today’ mean that it is something new?” he writes.
Hace 1 día · The original subtitle for Thorstein Veblen’s ( 1918) scathing critique of Higher Learning in America was ‘a study in total depravity’. Having dismissed universities as ‘bureaucratic organisations … run by businessmen … captains of erudition’, Veblen went on to help found the New School in New York.
Hace 5 días · A commonplace is a rhetorical device developed by teachers like Aristotle, and has been used in numerous applications in public speaking for many years. Ironically, the commonplace is less common now, though you’ll still see references to commonplace books, which are quite different. You’d most often find commonplaces in things like the ...
Hace 12 horas · Making childfree and childless lives ordinary. Women’s friendships occupy significance due to choice, shared history and having things in common – a particular commonality being motherhood. There has been an increase in the number of individuals who do not have children for many reasons, whether health, choice or simply circumstance.
Hace 5 días · Another variable factor is the outcome of the next U.S. presidential election. However, given U.S. President Joe Biden’s avowed support for Israel during its war on Gaza, Lynk said the only thing likely to change under a second Donald Trump presidency could be Trump’s opening the door to Israel’s formal annexation of ...
Hace 3 días · Using the categories of normal and abnormal, James Lorimer’s The Institutes of the Law of Nations subjectivised the native as the abnormal in international relations, denying recognition of their independent communities and providing justification for their perpetual subjugation. This article deploys Foucault’s critique of psychiatry to contextualise the unexplored intersections of Lorimer ...
