Oxford was the center of philosophical discourse at the time, with some 70 philosophers on the faculty.
"The situation shows the danger of becoming the center of the discourse rather than having the texts and evidence be the center," Ms. Burgan said.
As I listened to these students sing, I thought about the issues of economic inequality that the Occupy Wall Street protesters have moved to the center of political discourse.
But if possible, the docket that Mr. Clement has compiled in the private sector as one of Washington's leading appellate litigators may situate him even closer to the center of national discourse.
For OWS's courage and candor, for putting the economic health and well-being of the 99% at the center of public discourse, for not being cowed by riot police, the elements or pepper spray, I am truly thankful.
Andrew Marantz, who reports on the alt right for The New Yorker, explains to David Remnick exactly how ideas and memes are being moved from the fringes of the far right to the center of American discourse.
Their access to common property resources, essential for their survival, is denied to them as a result of state action, to a point where the very survival of entire communities is called into question – but this does not become the center of the discourse.
Pundits, Very Serious Politicians, and more have spent the past two years plus doing everything they can to make the deficit the center of public discourse, to focus all our fears on the attack by bond vigilantes that was supposedly just over the horizon.
But it's starting to creep into the center of our discourse.
Foremost among the technical terms of philosophy that Ibn 'Arabî employs is wujûd, existence or being, a word that had come to the center of philosophical discourse with Avicenna.
