However, as has been pointed out above, the common current practices of participation, assessment, and policy making are not necessarily always in line with the latest discourses in the literature.
As an art student eager to know about the latest arts discourse and reviews, I thought nothing of spending hours poring over the library's copy of contemporary art journal Studio International.
Sir Mathew Hale took time off from his legal studies to publish two critiques, which More tried to answer in his Remarks upon two late ingenious Discourses (1676).
Fashions, categorizations or the latest aesthetic discourses do not alter Fan Zeng's serenity, when, at 76, he handles the brush, he simply re-interprets Chinese classical themes, and by reconnecting with Wang Xizhi (303-361) and Bada Shanren (1626-1705) he lives, stronger than ever, full of the life of the Chinese art.
(By the way, I start my day, every day, with a quick skim of the Times followed by Thoma's blog Economist's View, which is the best place by far to keep up with the latest in economic discourse).
From his writings we know that Cicero (1st c. BCE) was knowledgeable about both Peripatetic and Stoic logic; and Epictetus' discourses (late 1st early 2nd c. CE) prove that he was acquainted with some of the more taxing parts of Chrysippus' logic.
Over-exposure has been a hot topic in pop discourse of late.
Communication is the heart and soul of American democratic governance, but there hasn't been much fruitful discourse of late — among members of Congress, between the people and their representatives or in the public sphere.
BOOTHBAY HARBOR, MAINE — A stunning idea has entered respectable American discourse of late: that China is not just an economic rival but also a political competitor, with a political system that, despite its own flaws, reveals grave flaws in American democracy and might be inspiring to wavering nations.
