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...from photography's early soft-focus, pictorialist style to crisp modernism. He also linked the art world between New York and Paris, and made his own life a bridge from artist to critic to commercial photographer to museum curator. He has been hailed as the greatest photographer of the 20th century, and the Jeu de Paume show - with more than 400 works on display - helps support the claim. This exhibition, surprisingly the first Steichen retrospective in Europe, continues until Dec. 30, before going to Lausanne, Zurich, Reggio Emilia, Madrid, Wolfsburg, New York and Toronto...
Although Rorty extols the great ironist philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries, he finds them deeply troubling and precarious, precisely because philosophy will always hear the siren song of Truth, the irrepressible desire to be universal. Thus we get Hegel’s “absolute,” Nietzsche’s “will to power,” and Heidegger’s “being.” For this reason, Rorty believes that philosophy is done best in the context of the novel, because the novel seeks to express solely...
...Those who charge that universities are unable to change should take note of this transformation, of how different we are from universities even of the mid 20th century…. By their nature, universities nurture a culture of restlessness and even unruliness. This lies at the heart of their accountability to the future?...
...former Princeton provost said this week that he used that occasion to respond to the conservative assault on the academy in the 1980s. Much of the speech was a history, tracing the ideas of American education that gave birth to the research university of the late 20th century...
...students celebrated National Coming Out Day. Members of Harvard’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters’ Alliance (BGLTSA) gathered in front of the Science Center, shouting “Happy Coming Out Day!” to show support for gay students and mark the 20th anniversary of the Second National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights. “It’s a celebration of being visible and being proud of what you are,” said former BGLTSA co-chair Gilda D. Medina...