Word: reinterpretive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What you have to do is reinterpret the classical principles of human rights and democracy in such a way that they become translatable into empirical terms," Habermas said, explaining that, "this is what [he] wanted to challenge by reforming and debating ideas of democracy...
...Native American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies. The purpose of these disciplines is not only "to broaden the extant canon of knowledge to include experiences and contributions of groups historically excluded from such consideration," but more significantly, to create "an approach striving towards multiple positioning of race/class/gender/sexuality" and "[to reinterpret] existing paradigms through which the meaning of the human experience is apprehended." We agree with the first of these two tenets. American society today is the result of hundreds of years of interaction between individuals of very different backgrounds, and if modern scholarship ignores the contributions of any group because...
...Whenever you start to dictate to an artist his "social responsibility" you get into an area of censorship. I think the artist has the right to interpret and reinterpret history and the events of his time. It's up to the artist himself to determine his own ethics by his own conscience...
...large urban areas anywhere in the world," says Eugene Mornell, executive director of the Los Angeles County commission on human relations. "All our stereotypes are obsolete. Many immigrants are conservative, many poor people are patriotic, and vice versa. All groups include those who desire to maintain their original culture, reinterpret it or leave it behind...
...interview yesterday, CCLN member R. Phillip Dowds said that the group would sue the city if it does not reinterpret its zoning ordinance so as to resolve conflicts in the way it calculates height...