Word: dialecticism
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"The Muse cannot help being an intellectual," said the Tsar generously, "but I do not think that we should charge her with Trotskyism. I must say, though, that for a Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me...
In the undeclared civil war which has existed since the latter part of 1939, he asserts, the Communists have killed six Chinese for every Japanese, have thrown patriots by the thousands into traitors' camps. "It is hard to understand," he comments bitterly, "how such destruction of Chinese manpower was...
Yet as a realist, he is dogmatic in his insistence that ethics are tools, that thought is relative. To a realist any form of internationalism is a cloak for a dominant group. To him a balanced power is fairer than any World Federation which would be simply a disguise for...
Frendian psychology is the catalyst. Soule is convinced that man's behavior can be understood only by first understanding his emotions, and that the key to emotional conduct is observation of physiological reactions. From this starting-point he goes on to consider Freud's analysis of the individual mind and...
This ambiguous light flickers on the faces of Remains' characters as they move in the darkness of a post-war Paris from which, for them, security and human hope have vanished. Sampeyre, who represents the finest traditions of 19th-Century liberalism, no longer feels at ease in talking with...