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This essay is about Ernst Kantorowicz’s stance on the anti-communist Loyalty Oath controversy at the University of California in the early years of the Cold War. Kantorowicz, who just had escaped Nazi Germany, found himself caught up in a fight between a
Mario Wimmer
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Revolutions as disasters of misconceived political projects of social mutations
The study reviews the book You say you want a revolution? Radical idealism and its tragic consequences by D. Chirot (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2020) and, at the same time, advances a viewpoint on social revolutions based on Thoreau’s im ...
Cătălin Mamali Abstract:
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Befriending Your Food: Pigs and People Coming of Age in the Anthropocene
Geologists and ecologists report that Earth is undergoing its sixth massive extinction event, an occasion that calls for radical revision of conservation ethics. The biologist Edward O.
Mary Trachsel
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Rhetoric, Dialectic and Logic: The Wild-Goose Chase for an Essential Distinction
Taking Blair’s recent contribution to the debate about the triad as its starting point, the article discusses and challenges attempts to reduce the intricate relationship between rhetoric, dialectic and logic to a trichotomy with watertight compartments ...
Charlotte Jørgensen
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If my cholesterol is…then I foresee…: patient accounts of uncertainty
The author examines the talk of patients with high cholesterol as they discuss their experiences of adding a statin to their treatment regimen. The primary objective was to understand patients’ expectations of statins, and their beliefs and feelings as ...
Darlene K. Drummond
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Self-deliberation and the Strategy of the Pseudo-dialogue
The New Rhetoric identifies the self-deliberator as one of three main types of audience. But such a turn toward the self is at odds with studies of contemporary argumentation, particularly social argumentation.
Christopher W. Tindale
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Apriori Method of Mining Secure Data in Social Media [PDF]
As can be seen all around us, social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr and other became more importance grow rapidly in the last few years.
Zahraa Raji Mohi
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The Toys of Organic Chemistry: Material Manipulatives and Scientific Reasoning
THE TOYS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY: MATERIAL MANIPULATIVES AND SCIENTIFIC REASONING Abstract: Chemical visualizations and models are special kinds of media for thinking.
Kate McKinney Maddalena
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Scholars have shown how the politics of English(es) can perpetuate structures of unequal power, marginalization, and injustice (as well as being used to counter them).
Shyam Sharma
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The role of emotion-arousal in Aristotle’s Rhetoric [PDF]
The principal claim defended in this thesis is that for Aristotle arousing the emotions of others can amount to giving them proper grounds for conviction, and hence a skill in doing so is properly part of an expertise in rhetoric.
Dow, Jamie P.G.
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