Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Looking into the Abyss...
...radical attempt to change the former threatens the very existence of the latter. This, in short, is the subject of the eminent historian Gertrude Himmelfarb's new collection of essays. A thoughtful diatribe against those who would treat philosophy as poetics and politics as aesthetics, On Looking into the Abyss shows the worthlessness of the intellectual currency traded in most places of higher education today...
...expansion of ethnocentrism threatens to lead us into an abyss of academic separatism...
Only then can we begin to consider ways in which Harvard can reverse the current ethnocentrism masquerading as true multiculturalism and perhaps, with time, lead other institutions away from the abyss of separatism...
...absurd and obtuse it must seem, then, to look at books entitled "There's no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing too!" Stanley Fish, the author of this book (published by Oxford!), and his fellow-travellers along the postmodern abyss do not really mean what they say, do they...