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However, when seen more closely, the table is also something more - it is not only a material thing in space, but in addition is furnished with definite valuative predicates: beautifully made, useful - it is a piece of equipment, furniture, a part of the room's decor.

enowning enowning 2008

However, when seen more closely, the table is also something more - it is not only a material thing in space, but in addition is furnished with definite valuative predicates: beautifully made, useful - it is a piece of equipment, furniture, a part of the room's decor.

Archive 2008-11-01 enowning 2008

Noting that "it is not easy to disentangle the valuative work of commemoration from the rigor of a reading," she elaborates Paul de Man's severe emphasis on aesthetic monumentalization into a rich reading of the kind of biographical material — memoirs, anecdotes, letters — that is so often marshalled as an antidote to textual complexity.

Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism 2005

Yet as de Man repeatedly demonstrates, it is not easy to disengage the valuative work of commemoration from the rigor of a reading.

Shelley's Pod People 2005

(Is it appropriate to ascribe authority or expertise in valuative domains like ethics and aesthetics?)

Epistemological Problems of Testimony Adler, Jonathan 2006

Public policy has thus been shaped by exaggerated claims and by unrealistic valuative standards.

The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

Public policy has thus been shaped by exaggerated claims and by unrealistic valuative standards.

The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994