Word: dialecticism
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For most people, a broken printer is a nuisance. For Svetlana Boym, it’s inspiration. Boym, the Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature, showcases her artwork for the first time at Harvard this month. In her experimental multi-media exhibit â?...
THE DIALECTIC OF SEX
The philosopher Charles S. Peirce, Class of 1859, too, would have agreed, though for different reasons. For him, education was not about swallowing little bits and pieces of the world. Knowledge advanced through dialectic, not digestion: “Each mind reflects differently…and…reality doesn?...
(2 of 2) Not that the movie doesn't contain seeds of its own parody. Peter Barsocchini's script is so aware of its cliches, they almost become endearing. It sets up a dialectic of extremes. Troy's pal Chad (Corbin Bleu) proudly voices the philistine argument: "The music in...
It is both popular and fashionable to say that the mastery of international relations is an art. After all, history has given us poignant dramas like the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, yet also regrettable farces like the Munich Agreements of 1935, pompously presented by British Prime Minister Chamberlain as a...