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Recognition
Recognition There is a battle scene in Homer’s Iliad where a deep, obscuring fog comes down suddenly over the field of combat. The soldiers have endured danger, hard blows and mortal injuries, but this they cannot stand. “Please,” they cry … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic bureaucracy, academic combats, academic hearings, academic termination, accusing the victim, action theory, Adolf Hitler, angelic message, angels, appeasement, aspiration, being seen, being witnessed, brainwashing, casing the situation, consolation, counter arguments, defeatists, Dunkirk, feeling alone, feeling outnumbered, field of combat, film dramatizations, general rules, great men, great women, heroes of resistance, high principles, History, history's vindication, homecoming, Homer's Iliad, Homeric gods, Joe Wright's "Darkest Hour", keeping one's bearings, knowing the particulars, knowing the precedents, links with nature, links with wild creatures, losing one's bearings, memory links, Mind Control, nazis, Nazism, ostracism, other worldly messengers, particular cases, personnel actions, Phyllis Chesler's Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing A Veiled War Against Women, pilgrimage, psychological damage, psychological torture, recognition, reunion, rights of women, rules of conduct, sacred journey, Screenwriter Anthony McCarten, self-knowledge, shunning, social force, solitary confinement, their finest hour, thought police, thought reform, totalism, university administration, verified prediction, Winston Churchill, World War II, WWII
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“Meta-Narratives”
“Meta-Narratives” There is a French post-modern philosopher who writes, “I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.” By that is meant, there is no large story – no history of humanity as such – into which our private stories, the novellas … Continue reading →
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Tagged "all the world's a stage", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Getting Past Marx and Freud", abstractions, Adolf Hitler, Albert Camus, alienation, analytic geometry, Cartesian Method, Charles Darwin, civilization, class warfare, communism, counter-narrative, fanaticism, fiction, historiography, Holocaust, humanism, ideality, imagination, Jean-Francios Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition, Jewish influence, Karl Marx, laws of nature, laws of physics, macro-history, man-made meta-narratives, Marxism, meta-narrative, Modernity, narrative, Newton, nonfiction, novelists, novels, Old World charm, plot, Providential history, Rene Descartes' Rules for the Direction of the Mind, science, self evidence, seventeenth century, skepticism, story, survival of the fittest, theory of evolution, Timothy Snyder's Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, urban planning, urban renewal, utopia, W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming", wage slaves, Western history, world history, writers
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