In other words, as is proper for an academic, Lears is concerned not with gambling but with the discourse of gambling, and in the realm of discourse he fears that the culture of control has dominated.
But McEvilley adeptly shows in his 1982 essay, "Head's Its Form, Tails It's Not Content", how Reinhardt's "radical formalism" is nothing more than Aristotle's Law of Identity restated, which "applies equally and alike to all things in the realm of discourse".
As highlighted below, the available evidence - that is, the evidence that is the result of an academic research study and not mere anecdote - tells us that the speculated harms have not, in general, materialized to the degree often suggested in the realm of popular discourse (for examples of such discourse see Table 1).
Alan Levine Ocean, NJ The dearth of substantive political debate in the United States calls to mind Cicero's admonition that emotion (pathos) often overwhelms reason (logos) and integrity (ethos) in the realm of public discourse.
One difference between democracies and dictatorships is that the constructing and revising of public spaces is not a propaganda opportunity for the ruler but a realm of democratic discourse, influenced by popular opinion and competitive electoral politics.
It was Charles Darwin's famous book that brought it into the realm of scientific discourse, and it is Darwinism that ultimately explains all three.Darwin became unfashionable among bien pensants because of a reaction to the excesses of eugenicists, racists and "social Darwinists" who misused his theories.
Grace Jantzen has advanced a critique of the emphasis on ineffability as an attempt to remove mystical experiences from the realm of rational discourse, placing them instead into the realm of the emotions (Jantzen, 1995, p. 344).
There may be some truth to it at a very oddly literal level, but it is so odd and out of the realm of sane discourse we don't even bother with such characterizations for the most part.
Furthermore, Ariel Weissmann argues that the laws of thought apply only to the realm of human reasoning, to the "universe of discourse" as he cites George Boole [4].
If you judge what's hot by the amount of discourse in the public realm then it seems Sesame Street may well be what's "in" among Hipsters.
Andrew O'Hehir in Salon lamented the death not of film per se but of "film culture," a ghostly realm of serious cinematic discourse that flourished sometime in the past — in the art-house '60s, the New Hollywood '70s or the indie '80s and '90s — but definitely not anymore.
