Thus the lectures argue that art generally, and therefore poetry in particular, is national in nature, not universal like science and (in a sense) religion, and more radically that poetry has the function of expressing individuality, of resisting even the commonality of a national language (thereby making explicit a potential which is also present, though less realized, in normal language use).
John Major made headlines recently with a lecture arguing that inequality blights an affluent society.
Wolfenstein and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, March 7 , 1936P. 15 Middle-aged couple emerged from Planetarium's four o'clock lecture, arguing peevishly.
In 1999, Yang Xiaokai, a prominent liberal economist, gave a lecture arguing that to declare China's boom a success prematurely was "very dangerous," because "without political reform there is no fairness, which leads to public dissatisfaction".
This lecture argues that mental health is a major factor of production.
"The beasts would tear us apart," the priest lectures, arguing a position of strength, and our protagonists neither agree nor disagree.
In the book and the lectures, Lewis argues that significant changes are required to meet the Millennium Development Goals in Africa by their 2015 deadline.
Former lord chief justice Lord Judge and three other senior British judges have recently backed this stance in high-profile lectures, arguing that by treating the convention as a "living instrument" the ECHR is "undermining democracy".
And accordingly, in the dialectics lectures he argued that there was an even higher "transcendental ground" beyond the Spinozist natura naturans or the Herderian highest force.
In the wake of the Iraq war, Obama, in his Nobel lecture, also argued that military action should not be taken against other states without UN Security Council approval.
In a series of lectures, Montazeri argued the powers of the faqih should be more limited and that the people's participation increased – given his seniority as a cleric, his raising of the possibility of changing the existing system amounted to an endorsement of the reformist movement leading to Mohammad Khatami's election as president in 1997.
