The mourning traditions of earlier cultures prescribed precise patterns of behavior that facilitated the public expression of grief and provided support for the bereaved.
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Critical Theory was on the oppressive nature of mass consumerism which is closely linked to capitalism but it gradually expanded to cover almost every area of human relations.
Quebec is very much part of that great cultural mash-up we call Western culture.
Muslim women are fighting stridently within their communities, but their fight doesn’t tread the same path as secular Western feminism.
What is most needed in our present crisis is a philosophy that can move through the impasse between modernism and postmodernism.
The battlefield is indeed the university. How, then, does he characterize these two opponents?
Access to journals is crucial for how they do their work. But few research libraries can afford all the journal subscriptions needed by all of their faculty for all occasions.
You are sick to death with the unrelenting abuse of language in public life.
The lack of any ideological counterpoise has created a vacuum where ideas have no mechanism or incentive for moderation.
What we are witnessing is not really a conflict of rights, but a conflict of conceptions of the good.
The ALSCW started because of the ascendancy of postmodernist theory, but not because of the politics associated with postmodern theory.
Peterson is celebrated in the news media as a champion of free speech and liberal, democratic values, while in fact promoting a far-right worldview.
What, I wondered, would have happened had Jesus emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution?
The celebration of tolerance as an end in itself is a symptom of the shift from self-confident modern liberal democracies to the self-doubting postmodern ones.