Word: factualism
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...Larry McMurtry -- Calamity Jane, Bill Cody and Sitting Bull whoop it up. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver -- Environmental catastrophe meets Native American mythology. The Final Club by Geoffrey Wolff -- Class warfare at Princeton during the 1950s. Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman -- Fictional characters caught up in the factual bombing of Move headquarters by Philadelphia police in 1985. Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee -- South Africa, with cancer as a metaphor for apartheid. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike -- Harry Angstrom hops offstage, perhaps to meet his maker. The Further Inquiry by Ken Kesey -- The head Prankster rerolls the legendary...
...just as Tocqueville did with "The End of the Old Regime," and Marx did with "The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," Ash ably combined factual accounts and theoretical analysis into an extremely readable product. And in doing so, he has created a work of instant history...
...scrutiny so that you can try to identify your own biases. You hope that a consciousness of social embeddedness makes you more sensitive. So, yes, of course, the interpretations of the Burgess Shale are in part conditioned by what's happening in society. But there is also a basic factual issue. I think that the description of the anatomy of these organisms can be done with objectivity. It is how we interpret these animals, and what we say they mean for the history of life that is obviously subject to biased ways of thinking. But I do think there...
Unfortunately, these arguments carry little weight with the Corporation, because the fundamental disagreement between proponents and opponents of divestment is not over factual calculations, but moral values...
...schizophrenia. According to Courses of Instruction, the Core tries to train students in "the knowledge, intellectual skills, and habits of thought that are the hallmarks of educated men and women." But Harvard claims the Core does not require "digestion of a specific quantum of information," presumably because any specific factual knowledge will soon become obsolete in the age of the information explosion. Instead, the Core attempts to teach the "forms of inquiry" and "approaches to knowledge"--essentially, ways of thinking--associated with each of the Core fields, irrespective of factual content. It ends up doing neither...