The enlightenment did not construct a world of coexisting worldviews but merely alternatives that were tolerated as subservient.
Its exquisite delights are to do, rather, with the sheer curiosity of the thing, the fact that Leigh has constructed a world of words.
This is where writing is a bit like anthropology, I suppose using all the cultural layering of detail and nuance and perception to construct a world of significance.
In theoretical philosophy, we use our categories and forms of intuition to construct a world of experience or nature.
Working in miniature allows me the freedom to construct a world of my choosing, and tell a story of what might be".
This season's show notes also quoted Immanuel Kant: "Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it".
In addition to the usual stresses of movie-making — constructing a world from scratch; managing hundreds of people; dealing with actorly egos — the crew had to cope with tragedy.
That meant money, loads of it — and the Cubs, who had constructed a World Series-ready rotation of Wood, Prior, Carlos Zambrano and Greg Maddux, ponied up a three-year, $32.5 million contract.
Lim is trying to do the same: to construct a world in which all of us might abide.
This work, reflected in his book, The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community (Harvard University Press, 2008), attempts to counter the aid and comfort these assumptions give to those who would construct a world in the image of economics, a world ultimately without community.
