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blog.ayjay.org
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| | | | | [AI summary] The provided text is a collection of various articles and essays from different authors, discussing a range of topics including literature, education, and society. The first part discusses C.S. Lewis's 'That Hideous Strength' and its themes of community and refuge, contrasting libertarian and anarchist views. The second part critiques an article by Nathan Heller about a supposed 'crisis of attention' in education, questioning the clarity and coherence of the piece. The third part references Russell Lynes's 1949 essay on highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow culture, and mentions a critique of Robert Graves and Alan Hodge's book on post-war British culture. The text also touches on the debate over what constitutes 'low-brow' reading and the role of d... | |
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amroali.com
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| | | | | The Arab intellectual community in Berlin needs to acquire a name, shape, and a mandate of sorts. This may include a school of thought, a political philosophy or even an ideational movement - all cross-fertilized through a deeper engagement with the Arab world. | |
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theimaginativeconservative.org
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| | | | | Hardly an opera producer now, confronted with a masterpiece that might otherwise delight and console an audience, can control the desire to desecrate. The more exalted the music, the more demeaning the production. What modern producers seem to forget is that audiences are gifted with the faculty of imagination... (essay by Sir Roger Scruton) | |
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deusdiapente.wordpress.com
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| | | Looks like someone else has come up with the two very different "systems" of cognition that we wade through every day: Contextualizing and Decoupling. The differing debating norms between scientific vs. political contexts are not just a cultural difference but a psychological and cognitive one. Beneath the culture clash there are even deeper disagreements about... | ||