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In a contemporary review of the book, Benjamin DeMott of The New York Times praised Against Interpretation as "a vivid bit of living history here and now, and at the end of the sixties it may well rank among the invaluable cultural chronicles of these years." He concluded, "Miss Sontag has written a ponderable, vivacious, beautifully living and ...
McGee encourages the study of ideographs (such as “liberty” and “freedom”) to help identify the ideological position of a society. He argues such terms are used in discourse as a means of justifying problematic issues within a society. The meaning of an ideograph is defined by a society and its culture and can change over time ...
The fourth act presents the development of a new imposture, in which Sartre took up multiple different postures of writing. The fifth act relates Sartre's delusion, which he considers the source of his dynamism, and contains the announcement of a second book which he did not complete before his death.
Several reviewers have embraced Hägglund's critique of capitalism while expressing reservations about his critique of religion. James G. Chappel in Boston Review praised the book for providing "a vision of justice that is plausible and compelling enough to organize our efforts," while being critical of Hägglund's treatment of religion. [12]
Los Angeles Review of Books. 2018. Scott Selisker, "Notes on Felski's The Limits of Critique." 2016. BYU College of Humanities interview with Rita Felski, 2017. Kathryn Fleishman review of The Limits of Critique in Make Literary Magazine, 2016. Daniel London review of The Limits of Critique on The blog of the Journal of the History of Ideas, 2016.
The philosopher Sheldon Wolin called the book "the best political critique of Rawls from a communitarian and participatory perspective." [4] The philosopher Richard Rorty described the book as "clear and forceful". He credited Sandel with providing "very elegant and cogent arguments against the attempt to use a certain conception of the self, a ...
In "Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021" (published by St. Martin's Press), former German Chancellor Angela Merkel writes about two lives: her early years growing up under a Communist-controlled police ...
He insists that meaning is made possible by the relations of a word to other words within the network of structures that language is. [ 45 ] Derrida initially resisted granting to his approach the overarching name deconstruction , on the grounds that it was a precise technical term that could not be used to characterize his work generally.