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...thinking. We must first acknowledge that the place of individual action has changed. Most of us cannot hope to change the world by ourselves; even progress in the arts and sciences is becoming a group affair. For many of us, important individual action will be limited to the sphere of family life and morality. Our work may be valued by others, but for the most part, it will only be in our private lives that our actions as individuals will be irreplaceable...
...first major work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, was published in 1962. Since then, Habermas has developed his central theory of communicative action, a theory of social action based on discourse between individuals aiming to achieve a consensus of truth...
...incorporator of SPHERE, Inc., a nonprofit alliance of 12 independent schools in the vicinity of Hartford, and a trustee of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS...
...developed a computer program that would simulate such a cosmic crack-up and let the scientists watch it play out. As the investigators predicted, the planet--roughly half the size of Earth--was annihilated by the collision, surrounding Earth with a Saturnesque ring of rubble that coalesced into a sphere. "We expected this," says Robin Canup, a Colorado research associate involved in the study. "It was no surprise that a moon formed...
...Strawberries denotes not a point on a line, but an area of a my sphere. And when you run with me, it is your sphere too. Like that wonderful old tree on the Memorial Drive side of the Weeks Footbridge, it is a permanent landmark, saying, 'Yes. I am with...