Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writes in "Further Reflections on the Public Sphere," "Discourses do not govern. They generate a communicative power that cannot take the place of administration, but can only influence it. This influence is limited to procurement and withdrawal of legitimation. Communicative power cannot supply a substitute for the systematic inner logic of public bureaucracies" (in Habermas and the Public Sphere, ed. Craig Calhoun...
...this context has become "the." This is a particular kind of privilege that whites and only whites in this country enjoy. Understanding the racial and historical location of canonical authors, however, is important as long as Ralph Ellison, for example, is primarily studied as "a black author." Similar logic applies to race: racial constructs--such as whiteness and blackness--only exist in contrast to one another, so to study black disadvantage in America, for example, is also to study white privilege in this country--and vice versa...
...shipping can cause you to wind up wearing the right arm of a lycanthropic astronaut. Schrab calls this aesthetic "surreal"--indeed, one of the book's slogans is "Surreality just got funky!"--but that doesn't seem quite the right way to describe it. The key to understanding the "logic" of Schrab's universe is to realize that it's not the same sort of causality that we expect from works of prose fiction--or, in fact, from most comic books...
Those students can still take departmental science courses for Core credit, however--a logic the committee eventually found convincing, Chan said...
...rally if they had killed a bigger bank. Investors in the U.S. aren't strangers to the perversity of free markets. How many times have you seen a company so down that it says it must shed thousands of jobs, and the stock zooms? So ingrained is this convoluted logic that the mere appointment of a CEO known for tough love can send a stock flying. Sunbeam surged 49% on the day cost-cutting Al ("Chainsaw") Dunlap became CEO. Japan should name him Minister of Finance; the rally would dazzle...