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Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative … Continue reading →

Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative … Continue reading →

  https://books.google.com/books?id=zWNQKbi9uiQC&q=page+129#v=onepage&q=page%20129&f=false Chapter 5 Heidegger and Modern Philosophy: Critical Essays edited by Michael Murray Chapter 9 : The Task of Hermeneutics by Paul Ricoeur,  page 141 https://books.google.com/books/about/Heidegger_and_Modern_Philosophy.html?id=KpAVAAAACAAJ Philosophical Apprentice    

The reader doesn’t have to read to far into Ann Applebaum’s latest essay, in the New York Review of Books, titled  A New European Narrative? of October 12, 2017, a review of six books about Europe, to find this diagnosis … Continue reading →

Consider three key paragraphs in Mr. Wolf’s Anti-Corbyn polemic: The leader of the UK Labour party has already had a disastrous economic impact, by making the Brexit referendum result far more likely. He cannot just say, as he did in … Continue reading →

Mr. Plender’s blend of ersatz economic technobabble and kitsch will find its advocates/enthusiasts here at The Financial Times. Yet his chatter can lead to only one conclusion for the Free Marketeer. At the same time the build-up of debt means … Continue reading →

Mr Kleinzahler’s dismissal of Mr. Hefner reeks of disdain, yet he was, as semitone has indicated, not quite consistent in his application of that emotion. Some of Mr Kleinzahler’s readers are old enough to recall an old television show done … Continue reading →

Mr. Benedict Mander’s first paragraph is-what to call it? Mauricio Macri, Argentina’s president, has liberalised the country’s economy and opened it up to global trade and foreign investment. His government’s biggest task, though, is yet to come: it wants to … Continue reading →

Thank you for your comments on my post, much appreciated! My numbers shot up on both twitter and my blog.  Are you an internet rookie?  Because you have transgressed one of the first rules that almost all bourgeois ‘pundits’ observe: … Continue reading →

Mr.Collins, in your latest essay, present yourself as the ‘voice of reason’, the usual gambit of the propagandist/apologist, as opposed to the ‘political irrationalism’, indeed the Radical Political Romanticism of the Brexiteers i.e. British Gaullists! That last word really is … Continue reading →