Suggesting that a critical concern for our cultural moment is about understanding the nature of ‘hypocrisy’ may appear to be a real misstep. We have pressing issues facing the world from a myriad of directions, and adjudicating who the hypocrites are seems to be a completely ancillary concern. I would contend, however, that properly perceivingContinue reading “Misunderstanding Hypocrisy”
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A Note on Subjectivity
A colleague of mine often playfully chides me for being too analytical about what words mean – assuming that one can ever ascertain this. What my friend is also commenting on is the manner in which I am liable to presume that I do not understand what a given word means when speaking to variousContinue reading “A Note on Subjectivity”
The “Past” of History
Certainly in English, though I presume this to be similar in other languages, we have a peculiar word that is used in several senses: the “past.” This can be understood as a generic term under which ‘yesterday’ is a specific instance; though, in this sense, it is also a mere placeholder for whatever occurred priorContinue reading “The “Past” of History”
Hoping for Clarity 