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... conversations in historical scholarship relevance to academic conversations relevance to public conversations late medieval religious culture the “material turn” In a graduate seminar, “Late Medieval Religion—Conversations and Controversies,” I have had students read major publications and discuss how...

... meaningful enough, the skepticism relevant to philoso- phy would recur. Backgammon as a metaphor for ordinary life pays it a thin com- pliment. While literary critics and theorists of the public sphere have sometimes used theories of public language...

... to be will depend on the perceived validity and relevance of available discourses relative to contexts and aims . Since we cannot access a “god's eye view” (as Haraway would say), there is no other way in which the conversation of culture can proceed. In a discussion of Michel Foucault, Rorty once invoked...

... Davis died on the fourteenth day of the latest war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza. The relevance of “Postscript,” which was written following the attacks by al‐Qaeda in the United States on September 11, 2001, is that it redirects the attention of scholars from the battlefield and mass media...

...  – talk istalk ever “unstable and restless. . . . Real articulate.” become “reflection is talk” “real contrast, In conversation.” a have to necessary “hardly it make that designs conversational to democrat a as war. Walzerobjects in surrender to equivalent” “philosophical...

...-term consequential assumptions of relevant rights and the acceptance of relevant duties. Positioned as host, a person must ensure that a particular local story line is lived out. The story line for an episode that mixes conversational acts...

... and Believers tells the story of a vocal, vibrant national conversation and commotion whose unintended consequences were as profound and paradoxi- cal as they were unforeseen. This story has acquired fresh relevance in a context in which the Reformation is invoked with infuriating frequency as a precedent...

... Tradition: A Comment on Professor Szubka .” University of Chicago Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper 298. SSRN, February 10 , 2010 . https://ssrn.com/abstract=1550385 . Llanera Tracy . Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism . Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020...

... and, to that extent, socially relevant. There may be contexts where the global number of bananas is relevant. The illustration leans on the assumption that the reader can recognize contexts where the total number is basically irrelevant. References Arendt Hannah . Vita activa: Det virksomme liv...

..., and each newly acquired book, should stage a conversation with its neighbor: ask a question, pro- vide an answer. The result is a conversation both infinite and coherent: the envy, perhaps, of today’s digitized world and its infinite capacity for information...

... popular and unsupported claim that the humanities have practical relevance and, instead, to offer ruminative descriptions of what happens when teachers and students meet to discuss texts and objects. She explains that the essays report in detail on five individual classes in five very different academic...

... 9Heretics and Believers tells the story of a vocal, vibrant national conversation and commotion whose unintended consequences were as profound and paradoxi- cal as they were unforeseen. This story has acquired fresh relevance in a context in which the Reformation is invoked with infuriating frequency...

...Richard A. Shweder In the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, Stanley Katz (who now chairs the editorial board of this journal) invited the intellectual community to reflect on its own history of involvement in public affairs and to make good on its mistakes. This essay examines a single...

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... tongue, not to whisper sweet nothings into a handsome poet’s ear, but as a stepping stone to a loftier goal: the conversion of devout Roman Catholic Slovenians to a better faith. The first rows of our improvised classroom were peopled with plump Southern Baptists, schol...

.../public intellectual. Nevertheless, it is easy to conclude that Rorty's well-known adaptation of Michael Oakeshott's “conversation” metaphor was a somewhat misleading description of his own philosophical practice. So here we need to return to the entailments of eavesdropping. Rorty's philosophical...

..., difference and passion do not exactly lead to clear knowledge. We do not know, neither does this pair know, how each dif- fers from the other. The task of public life, and of private marriages, is to unravel such similarities and differences by conversing about them, working them out, discovering them...

... and eloquent conversations, for the clarity with which he was able to convey the most difficult philosophical concepts—a trait that made him a beloved and sought-after teacher and mentor—and not last, for his love of traveling far and wide, and of trekking and mountain climbing, as Francesco Tomatis recalled...

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