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. 53 lllo, p. 174 . 54 Francis R. Hart , “ Notes for an Anatomy o f M odem Autobiography ,” New Literary History, 1 ( 1970 ), 509 . 55 M. Ron Karenga , “ The Socio-Political Philosophy o f Malcolm X ... depicting a cultural d ram a weighted in social, economic, and political significance, The Autobiography also employs artistic collaboration, as Alex Haley helps Mal colm n o t only to recreate each stage o
that you must have Marxist political views. Is the philosophy separate from the politics ? I’ve never been able to take the “Marxism” in the Frankfurt school very seriously. By “the Frankfurt School,” I ... SEARLE Bruce Krajewski JO H N S e a r l e I s a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Speech Acts (1969), The Campus War (1971), Expression and Meaning
Western social and political systems, led Wollstonecraft to conceive of new and more powerful roles for women as well as for men. During the early stages of the “bourgeois revolution,” Wollstonecraft ... she was not only addressing but also striving to emulate. Wollstonecraft may also have directed her treatise toward these men for the very practical reason that only they had political force, the power
the stories? W alker addresses a b ro ad range o f issues: artistic, political, and personal. She recalls the tragedy o f grow ing up in a racist society to suddenly “m e e t” h er elders who, throug h ... f beautiful, non-controversial icons. Instead, she has struggled to evolve a philosophy which would transform the ugly. O ut o f h er w riting comes a positive approach to life and art which som ew
feminist political struggle, both in terms of my own attempts to understand that struggle and the attempts of the movement at large to conceive of its principles and protocols. It is my hope that the ... knowledge I produce here will contribute to the ongoing task of reconstructing feminism’s history, in addition to augmenting the growing body of feminist theory which informs current political action. In this
men, a necessary separatism that’s coupled with lesbianism either as a political stance or as a personal sexual preference. So you get a similar hostile response to what you might get from the mass of ... mind, as advocating a certain set of political ideas, probably revolutionary ideas, rath er than grounding the movement in some kind of essential being that you identify yourself with. I think that
naivete).3 Criticism—from Kant’s critical philosophy to our everyday intellectual integrity—has proven overwhelming for both the precritical, naive believer and for Pascal’s wagering soul. The urgency of ... there is such a thing as a presuppositionless philosophy. We come to consciousness already using a language; that fact ought to be significant. It is possible, argues Ricoeur, to get behind the crippling
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-political im port of the naturalist style in fiction by analyzing a few key passages from C rane’s book. During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, “Social Darwin ism,” a social theory derived from ... American attitudes to wards the socio-political structure of industrial capitalism. Social Darwinism recognized four main principles: ( 1 ) that society, in addition to whatever else m ight be said of it
the m ountains—scene o f an o th er mental collapse following the death of a form er com panion and lover. For a time in between he tries to gain some m ental traction thro u g h political protest, but ... one m ore escape, declaring in the end his intention to firm u p his golf game, invest wisely, and “find forgetfulness.” T h en is political activism the answer? Not in this book. T h e psyches of
external forces, and is in part political. By approaching the self in Jane Eyre as a pre-existing entity, Auerbach dismisses the influence of external forces and avoids the political content of the text ... avoid discussing the social and political context of the story. Charlotte Bronte was aware of the oppression of women, and she created characters that were also aware of it. Yet when Yuen analyzes the
scientific discoveries are often made simultaneously, or nearly so, in widely separated sites. And this happens between science and other areas as well. Art, literature, theology, philosophy, very often
identity being a com ponent of both eras, inhibited the inclusion of film as viable political weapon in the expression of the New Negro. Not only that, but Oscar Micheaux, the most prolific black director ... production and reception in a larger social and political context.
feminine identity. For Kristeva, the personal is always already political. T he civilization that gave us Nerval and Duras also produced Hitler, the Gulag, and the atomic bomb and continues to stifle women’s
have been falling into a trap of their own making, through their use of cliched terms. An example is that in talking about political figures, anybody who’s balanced, who has more conservative values, who ... has a message of peace, is called a political “m oderate”—and you know there’s an insinuation that the man is very weak or is sitting on the fence. This kind of cliched phrase is showing up even in
painfully reflect larger political and social turmoil, Coles has often revealed the amazing (to us adults, at least) inner resilience and wisdom such children can show in the face of extreme adversity