Such behavior may be read by the audience as an argument suggesting that a candidate is not fit to be president.” (571) Discussions of possible modes raise questions about modes of argument which merit more attention than they have so far received. In this essay, I want to address some ...
Following the mode of cultural studies, this essay focuses on Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own", a story that has been understudied, for her delineation of masculinity in the post-war United States. Reading the male protagonist's question "what is a man?" as the...
What Is the Birth of Tragedy About? Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon, by Caspar David Friedrich, 1824, via Alte Nationalgalerie In short, it is an essay on aesthetics. Right from the beginning, we learn that one of the book’s main premises is that “only as an aesthetic phenomenon...
is an essay written in 1784 by philosopher, Immanuel Kant. The essay begins by defining what it means to be enlightened. He... Learn more about this topic: What is the English Enlightenment? - Definition, Ideals & Thinkers from Chapter 1/ Lesson 9 ...
Although the notion of the crisis of European sciences has a general meaning, Husserl mainly focuses on this phenomenon in relation to the modern establishment of a mathematical natural science. However, he does not provide a definitive clarification of how its new method is specifically involved in...
Hinduism is distinct among many world religions in that it does not have a single religious text. There is no single holy book of Hinduism. Instead, Hindus draw knowledge from a large collection of treatises, essay, prayers, and meditations written over centuries called the Vedas. ...
The first section of the essay traces the psychological function of art from the mummies of ancient Egypt up to the present, and closes with the following conclusion: If the history of the plastic arts is not only a matter of their aesthetic butin the first placea matter of their psychology...
Epilogue “Raise the world with language empowered by the act.”― Frantz Omar Fanon “There is no freedom in silence.”― Steve Bantu Biko “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you & say you enjoyed it.”― Zora Neale Hurston Introduction
s a need to identify both with a term fitting to its divine upbringing. Though your most recent insights are just as encouraging. And it has been a pleasure reading your splendid essay on liberalism showing its cultural influences and developments. It is encouraging and quite a perceptive ...
These essays show that Cardin is a keen critical thinker as well as a profoundly creative one. The reader sees these two traits working out a vivid dialectic with each other. As a result, his critical thinking is itself creative; and his creative thinking is under critical control or, one ...