The article analyses changing attitudes towards lying, linking its greater ease in modern times to the weakening of the traditional connection between words and reality and to the growing pragmatic and expressive functions of language. Czeżowski also argues that the moral condemnation of lying has become less severe, as its evaluation increasingly depends on the purpose and broader situation in which lying is used as a means of action.
Modernity has ushered in an increasing detachment from life; a divorce of sorts is taking place between the individual and the cultural context. Given certain thoughts and feelings, words fail us. It seems that we fail to communicate, to understand, to carve significance beyond the text. I write this manuscript as a fe...
Abstract:Queering a disciplinary formation like the field of public address is a queerly normative thing to do. Pulling strands from queer rhetorics, abolitionist theory and practice, and Latin American political theory, this essay muddles about in the implications, difficulties, and promise of that project, ultimatley...
Christa J. Olson· Rhetoric & Public Affairs· 0 citations
In response to the essay by members of the KU Leuven project “Dissenting Church,” I argue that they overlook the metaphysics underlying much of the church’s twentieth-century thought on tradition, leading to unnecessary dichotomies, such as whether tradition changes or is unchanging.
M. F. Fischer· Theological Studies· 0 citations
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