Word: thinker
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Most Americans would be astounded to learn that during the drafting of that Constitution in 1787, its framers, searching for guidance, called on the ideas of no thinker more than those of a foreign (French, no less) nobleman who died three decades before they gathered--and, measured from our own day, 250 years ago next month. By now, few Americans know of Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Br??de et de Montesquieu. And that's too bad. Because Montesquieu still offers powerful guidance...
...defending philosophical systems the way earlier titans like Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-Paul Sartre did. "Previous generations of French intellectuals justified their entire careers on their conceptual work," says philosopher François Cusset, author of French Theory. "Before, the ideas came first and the thinker second; now it's reversed. BHL and the others are moralists who take up crusades on various issues, and rely on the media to advertise them - and themselves." The fury over BHL raises a question: if Lévy is the perfect French intellectual for the media age, what...
...Abbate is a great catch for Harvard,” said Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and chair of the music department Thomas F. Kelly. “She is an interesting thinker whose interests match well with those of the other faculty, including a very strong specialization in opera...
...Haven to restrict her dress to two choice colors, Haven wouldn’t have it. “How am I supposed to express myself with such a limited palette?” she asked. Future FTM writers who have the pleasure of working with this box-defying thinker will surely benefit from her unflagging creativity...
DIED. HARRY LAMPERT, 88, original illustrator of superhero the Flash, nemesis of such bad guys as the Thinker and the Shade; in Boca Raton, Fla. Lampert and writer Gardner Fox first introduced the "fastest man alive" in 1940 as the Golden Age of comic books was just unfolding. Their Flash--a scientist who could morph into a red-and-blue--clad speedster with a winged helmet--was an immediate hit. But Lampert, who preferred drawing gags for Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, left after a few issues, later founding an award-winning ad agency...