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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Word of the Week
As I consider blogging to be, in part, an act of remembering, I'm going to start publishing interesting words that I have found or recalled, and which I would like to remember.
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A wonderful word that I find very useful is "elide",
as in to omit and ignore, but also to abridge and eliminate.
"... as a result, Habermas elides
the reality of power and antagonism in the public sphere, and
consequently he fails to envision adequately 'the nature of a
pluralistic democratic public sphere'".*
*Brady, John (2004) ‘No Contest? Assessing
the Agonistic Critiques of Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of the Public
Sphere’, Philosophy & Social Criticism. Vol 30, No 3:
336.
Posted by Colin Welch at 4:11 PM
Edited on: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:23 PM
Categories: In a Philosophical Mood, Language
Edited on: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:23 PM
Categories: In a Philosophical Mood, Language