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• 11 May 09
  

  Jim Kleinhenz

  theory

  • Above all, they crash on the obdurate self, on self-interest without borders. Is there a way out?
• 04 May 09
  

  Jared Stein

  criticism literature literary philosophy

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  Chris Lott

  This leads to the core of my essay. An epistemology of experience, relying on pragmatic principles, depends less on metaphysical truth than on human trust. This trust, as William James shows in The Will to Believe, depends on another's trust, just as our faith "is faith in someone else's faith...." Hence the self-defeating character of radical relativism, of extreme particularism. Hence, too, the innate sterility of fundamentalism, which spurns human trust in favor of fiats, ukases, edicts, writs, and gospels of every kind.

  artlinks criticism literary theory theory

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  Jason K

  theory rhetoric literature literarycriticism

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