Word: dialecticism
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Sir / Mr. Cloud's dialectic misses an essential irony. It wasn't so much that Hamilton wanted to cut off Jefferson's "people" from participation as that Hamilton had a pessimistic estimate of the people's ability to distinguish between good and evil within the context...
This is not, of course, an accident. Hitler himself would have approved the mythic stature (if not the odium) that posterity has accorded him: his entire life was conceived as a prodigious drama - "Qualis artifex pereo!" as Nero is supposed to have said ("What an artist dies with me!"). Even...
Yet anybody who sees Brando's performance in Tango will find it hard to believe that this is a man who plans to retire, no matter what he may say. It is a performance that displays what Bertolucci calls Brando's capacity to "destroy himself and re-create...
And so a thicket of verbiage protects, and supports, the most banal propositions. Recently, an artist named Jannis Kounellis showed (among other things) a live macaw, sitting on a perch that projected from a steel plate. "The parrot piece," Kounellis explained, "is a more direct demonstration of the dialectic between...
May's true hero is Oedipus, who dared to learn the terrible truths about himself and paid the price of self-awareness: the perpetual burden of guilt and responsibility without which there can be no lasting morality. By contrast, May treats such facile Utopians as Charles Reich to sympathetic...