In an addition to the book, Berger finds firm footing in contesting the views of one-time Judge Robert Bork and President Nixon's lawyer, James St. Clair.
This revisionist history contests received views of Cortés as either swashbuckling hero or bloviating villain, of the Aztecs as cannibals, and of Montezuma as a meek, mystical king who voluntarily capitulated.
However, Yorck immediately continues by contesting this view: "Yet, events of this sort have an effect only if the psychological preconditions are in place" (16).
However, in contesting the static view of family values attributed to modern conservatism while solidifying support for a more fluid model, the editors may be preaching to the choir within academe.
More than 97,000 new fans joined the retailer's Facebook page during the contest, and daily views of its page increased by 4,800 percent.
The FA has decided to abstain from voting in the contest in view of its probe into allegations of corruption.
Free speech's value is not only a diversity of views; it is also the ability of people to contest those views.
Though clumsy, self-important and sometimes laughably silly, "The Wind Done Gone" ardently contests the romanticized view of the antebellum South set down in "Gone With the Wind" and proposes an Afrocentric version of history in its stead.
Her style of writing transmutes the way that the feminine has typically been denied the subject-position in a way that contests the traditional view of the self as autonomous subject and instead offers a fundamentally disjointed subject that, precisely because of its self-distance, is able to relate to others through wonder and an enveloping that preserves the other as other (Irigaray 1993).
And it sets the stage for a contest between radically different views of the future of newspapers in Britain.
