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Kant's ambivalent bequest to aesthetic theory had been to name — in the precise way that the act of "naming" hovers between the creative and the recursive, the tropological and the referential — "pleasure" and "voice" as the non-transcendable conditions for the operation of criticism itself.
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In the spirit of the classical jeremiad, Obama acknowledged the fact of tribulation but located it in the transcendable and, indeed, transcended past: “Because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.”
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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In the spirit of the classical jeremiad, Obama acknowledged the fact of tribulation but located it in the transcendable and, indeed, transcended past: “Because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.”
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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In the spirit of the classical jeremiad, Obama acknowledged the fact of tribulation but located it in the transcendable and, indeed, transcended past: “Because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.”
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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