From Fatalisms, Determinisms and Fundamentalisms to Overdetermination: Concerning Richard D. Wolff’s lecture on Global Capitalism: Capitalist Decline in Historical Perspective If there is a single thread that runs through my life story, from the beginning, it is fundamentalism, and as I turn from the past to the present and future, it’s as if that…
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Why Gendlin Matters Today
Why and How Gendlin Matters for Anyone I want to say why and how Gendlin’s practices matter in a way that will move anyone to want to try it. Inspire them, pique their interest, their curiosity. I feel that the way to do that is to appeal to our in-born desire as children to…
How does “communion” matter for language theory? A first Reading of Charles Taylor’s The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity
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The Scholar of Religion and Jonathan Z. Smith’s ‘Iron Law.’”
In this 2019 article, the focus is on the responsibility of the university in particular, in a democracy, more specifically, the focus of the article from start to finish, is on Smith’s academy in a democracy. In it, I argue that Smith, in addition to his extensive contributions to the study of religion, makes a…
The Contribution of Jonathan Z. Smith’s Study of Religion to Democratic Politics: Religion as Thinking, Thinking as World-making
From the outset Jonathan Z. Smith has regarded his study of religion as a matter of public concern, not something separate and apart. He makes this explicit in a number of ways, but does not offer a fully-developed political theory. To make what I argue is his implicit non-sovereign political theory more fully explicit I…
Aims of Education Address—Danielle S. Allen
Aims of Education Address 2001—Danielle S. Allen She delivered this address on September 20, 2001, just after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Download and Read
Openness and Critical Thought: On Reading Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth
1993 Openness and Critical Thought: On Reading Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth Download and Read
Ways of Talking about Knowledge in NIU AE Doctoral Dissertations: Epistemology and the Future of Adult Education
1995 “Ways of Talking about Knowledge in NIU AE Doctoral Dissertations: Epistemology and the Future of Adult Education,” The Canmore Proceedings: International Conference on Educating the Adult Educator: Role of the University, 123-131. May 14-17, 1995. Michael Collins, Editor. Canmore, Alberta, Canada. Download and Read
The Texture of Knowing in the Information Age: Interpreting the Personal Computer Story as a Chapter in the History of Adult Education
1994 “The Texture of Knowing in the Information Age: Interpreting the Personal Computer Story as a Chapter in the History of Adult Education.” Download and Read
The National Information Infrastructure: Information Myths, Information Policy and Adult Education Computer Policy Should be Based on an Adult Epistemology
1994 “The National Information Infrastructure: Information Myths, Information Policy and 1994 “Adult Education Computer Policy Should be Based on an Adult Epistemology,” Thresholds in Education, 1994, 20/3, 29-35. Download and Read