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...George Lyman Kittredge differed as much from Barrett Wendell as today Barbara Lewalski differs from James Wood. Happily the collegiality, at least at Harvard, seems to have improved. Perhaps the best reason, from this point of view, for shortening the name, is to give full sanction to our methodological pluralism??which makes the department weird and great...
...Richardson puts it, while it may seem that James’ later philosophical framework was formulated far after his early interest in psychology, many of his later themes—religious experience, the meaning and use of “truth,” and the benefits of pluralism??are clearly indicated in James’ writing even before the publication of his major work, almost as if it “couldn’t itself go forward until certain religious and philosophical problems had been faced and resolved.” By painstakingly illuminating James?...
...showed in the death threats against author Salman Rushdie and a portion of the murder of director Theo Van Gogh, a portion of the Muslim world has once again demonstrated its intolerance for free speech and democratic pluralism??an intolerance that reiterates the gaping incompatibility between dogmatic religion and democratic dissent. After the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten ran a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed dressed as a suicide bomber, many Muslims rose up in arms, setting embassies in Beirut and Damascus ablaze, storming the European Union (EU) office in Gaza, boycotting Danish products or withdrawing their ambassadors...
...insidious words. That begs the question, then, of what an “appropriate” venue to denounce racism would be. Surely one would have thought that a meeting of the world’s great liberal democracies—nations committed to the ideals of freedom, and pluralism??would be the ideal pulpit from which to take a strong stand against racism. What better place to face down the ugly visage of anti-Semitism than the meeting of an organization born out of the ashes of Adolf Hitler’s racist weltanschauung? Sadly, Chirac passed...
...choice in favor of freedom, democracy, market economics, in favor of political pluralism??this is something we are still mastering,” he said...
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