Re: quick question

[Eubulides <paraconsistent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>



> My guess is that Cole was attempting to assert that we
> shouldn't say that
> those policymakers/powerholders from the 16-early 18th centuries saw
> themselves as mercantilists pursuing mercantilist policies.

of course they didn't (since the owl of Minerva only flies after the
fact). I don't think that Bush thinks of himself as a capitalist pawn
pursuing capitalist policies.
Jim

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Description

Descriptions of descriptions

Contested descriptions of descriptions of descriptions


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"From a rhetorical standpoint, a description is a verbal representation of
some object to some audience, such that the speaker is able to change the
audience's attitude toward the object without changing the object itself.
Thus, the trick for any would-be describer is to contain the effects of
her discourse so that the object remains intact once her discourse is
done. In descriptions of human behavior, this is often very difficult to
manage, as the people being described, once informed of the description,
may become upset and proceed to subvert the describer's authority." [Steve
Fuller]


"'perceptual fault lines' run through apparently stable communities that
appear to have agreed on basic institutions and structures and on general
governing rules. Consent comes apart in battles of description. Consent
comes apart over whose stories to tell." [Kim Scheppele]