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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 26–28.
Published: 01 May 2014
... / to welcome the glorious days, / to hold tight to freedom in the storms.” Beyond shapes and sings the image of Mandela in my and my generation’s mind; we have come to know Mandela as always “a lifetime of faltering struggle.” I believe “The Glorious Days” remains, even today, 1. Chen Zhifen...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 205–214.
Published: 01 August 2022
... is Holy, holy, holy . “Everything that lives is holy.” To make it new so that everything can shine again. In Homer and Hesiod, everything shines. That's why the women are all fair-ankled and the meadow violet and so forth and so on. Everything is glistening, glorious, as on the first day. That shine...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 87–111.
Published: 01 February 2012
... the activity of heirt glorious revolution, also exhibited a profound historical consciousness of becoming the agents of an inevitable transformation of human behavior, intelligence, and rights. Rather than recounting the difficulties and problems inherent in compiling the texts of our...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 137–153.
Published: 01 February 2013
... that characterizes some of the most glorious and brilliant manifestations of the theological mind over time testifies to the fact that “the enigma of heter- onomous society and the enigma of religion are, in large part, one and the same enigma” (ISR, 329). One may raise the counterargument...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 165–215.
Published: 01 August 2011
... as a courageous but often vilified force in this country’s racial politics. Perhaps Armstrong’s life—the daring, immodest, transformative, comic, bawdy, noble, and effu- sively glorious artistic genius of his entire career—was destined to be the central objective measure of the jazz tradition’s...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 207–241.
Published: 01 February 2004
...-rate Euro- pean powers from the mortmain of the once-glorious pasts that by the early twentieth-century seemed merely to be excess baggage that retarded their progress into the future. In late nineteenth-century post-Famine Ireland, in stark contrast, the decisive preoccupation...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 157–179.
Published: 01 May 2002
... materials, et cetera, and, hopefully, the mo- ment of sunburst glory replacing anxious foreboding. The Phenomenology is Hegel’s glorious dawn song and marks one aspect of modernity as some- thing like the incessant repetition of phantom dawns.16 Hegel’s mixed metaphors identify the roving eye...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 15–24.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... 2000 . The Glorious Qur'an . Elmhurst, NY : Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an . Safranski Rudiger . 2017 . Goethe: Life as a Work of Art . New York : Liveright Press . Sahota G. S. 2018 . Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-epics and the End of Romanticism . Evanston, IL : Northwestern...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 February 2004
... alternative to French modernity. Tocqueville’s reading of the ancien régime as itself being the first revolution (and 1789 the second) initially makes a glaring contrast with Burke’s view of 1688, since Burke argued that the Glorious Revolution was as unrevolutionary as it was possible...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 35–66.
Published: 01 February 2007
... to the ideal of vigorous, manly self-reliance that motivated the frontiersmen of America’s glorious past. In a conscious response to this national anxiety, President Kennedy identified his campaign and later his administration as “the New Frontier,” now envisioned as global, though the immediate...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 87–98.
Published: 01 August 2013
... of Incommensurability.” This is not a new phenomenon. It has been growing as a school of thought since the Renaissance, reaching a glorious height in the thought of Hume, leading philosopher of bitsiness, who “dissipates human experience into sensory impressions” and “denies any knowledge that extends beyond...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 63–77.
Published: 01 August 2015
...” and onto “glorious” full-track­ mono, the emperor’s voice was now ready to be transmitted to the listening masses the following noon as an audible object unto itself.5 The “Jewel Voice Broadcast” therefore already contains a mystifica- tion in the term broadcast, for it occludes the important...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 February 2021
... capitalism, and machine translation, some- thing glorious and inexplicable, if not divine, attaches to the human ability to understand other humans both in language and across languages. In what follows, I shall argue for the glory that still inheres in translation, as its necessary capacity to reach...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 233–247.
Published: 01 May 2021
... similarities—or dissimilarities—of past and present are not important; what matters is an assessment of the futures in our present, the structural tendencies whose limits and openings pattern and pressurize structures of feeling today. With their explicit emphasis on glorious pasts, fascist movements always...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 February 2013
... the remarkable comments made publicly by none other than a Supreme Court Justice—albeit the court’s most color- ful personality, Justice Antonin Scalia—which were posted as instructions to the faithful as to how they can resist the malign disregard of the infidel multitude against the glorious reality...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 187–219.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Renaissance and Enlightenment were hardly anything but expressions of nostalgia for an imagined glorious European past, a nostalgia expressed through the appropriation of what came to be identified as “Greek civilization,” which was hijacked from its Eastern Mediterranean context and annexed...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 1–17.
Published: 01 August 2015
... reignited intrareligious ethnic conflict. In the case of the PRC still struggling with the legacies of a revolutionary past, the invocations of the past have taken a more ambigu- ous guise, restricted to vague statements about “five thousand years of his- tory” or the “glorious national tradition...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 203–218.
Published: 01 August 2014
... from reading, these acts of imagina- tive possession, including all the terrible (and glorious) substances of what we incorporate into our intellectual consciences, formed as they best are, by literature, by the poetry of sublime and beautiful language. Such lan- guage, of course, is rarely used...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 211–229.
Published: 01 May 2015
... poem, Shelley’s “Ode,” Pound’s “The Gar- den,” or Judy Garland singing “Born in a Trunk.” “Pound’s most glorious moments,” Altieri says in an inspired footnote, “are when he joins fact with a commitment to participation in what beauty affords” (257). Stevens’s philosophical situation...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 29–46.
Published: 01 August 2012
... as a slave. . . . It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of freedom.”40 Note the different meaning of slavery here from that of Adams. For Doug- lass, slavery is about a specific form of domination, one in which the master presses the slave through force...