"…as a conductor, I am fascinated by, and wide open to, every new sound-image that comes along; but as a composer I am committed to tonality. Here is a conflict indeed; and my attempt to resolve it is, quite literally, my most profound musical experience. And if this sounds far too existential for an old romantic like me, well and good: I am ready to switch and consider the teleological approach, and wrestle with that. Another synthesis to be sought.”
Leonard Bernstein
New York Times, October 14, 1965
National debate on French identity ends amid immigration controversy
France's debate on national identity ended amidst a backdrop of immigrant
tensions. While some saw the discussion series as a vital public discourse,
many felt it served as a platform for xenophobic comments.
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作為文風藝技的 lean and sinewy
'His lean and sinewy prose; his mastery of a kind of laconic, understated dialogue; his insistent use of repetition, often of a single word, or name--built up and transmitted an inner excitement to thousands of his readers.'
-- July 3, 1961
OBITUARY
Hemingway's Prize-Winning Works Reflected Preoccupation With Life and Death
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
---- 我在它處談過 lean
TELEOLOGICAL
: exhibiting or relating to design or purpose especially in nature
sinew
sin・ew
━━ n. 腱(けん); （pl.） 筋肉; 体力; （pl.） 原動力. （pl.） 資金.
The source or mainstay of vitality and strength. Often used in the plural: “Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue” (Izaak Walton).
the sinews of war 軍資金; 金.
━━ vt. 腱で結ぶ; 筋（力）［元気］をつける.
sinewy
━━ a. （肉など）筋の多い; 筋骨たくましい; （文体などが）引き締まった.
1. Lean and muscular. See synonyms at muscular.
2. Strong and vigorous: sinewy prose.
Counter-discourse The French philosopher and social historian Michel Foucault contends that every social discourse which involves a politically generated truth-claim encounters a counter-discourse that challenges the original discourse’s legitimacy.
Truth for Foucault often seems nothing more than the outcome of a struggle between competing discourses. Thus power produces or creates notions of ‘truth.’
This is reminiscent of but also differs from the idea that ‘might is right’, an idea that hearkens back to Plato. In the Republic Thrasymachus argues that notions of justice are in the interests of the stronger, which often are unjust. Foucault, however, seems almost indifferent to making value judgements, at least on the theoretical level, and more concerned to simply outline his view of what is.
While some maintain that Foucault’s idea of counter-discourse brings his thought in line with the Hegelian dialectic, Foucault himself argues against such a comparison.
While the Hegelian pairs of thesis — antithesis simultaneously arise in conformance with a proposed teleology in which a World Spirit progresses through history, Foucault suggests that counter-discourse arises after the implementation of a discourse. Moreover, Foucault envisions no grand, master plan of teleological unfolding as in Hegelian thought. Instead, his poststructural perspective is discontinuous and largely open-ended.
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Truth for Foucault often seems nothing more than the outcome of a struggle between competing discourses. Thus power produces or creates notions of ‘truth.’
This is reminiscent of but also differs from the idea that ‘might is right’, an idea that hearkens back to Plato. In the Republic Thrasymachus argues that notions of justice are in the interests of the stronger, which often are unjust. Foucault, however, seems almost indifferent to making value judgements, at least on the theoretical level, and more concerned to simply outline his view of what is.
While some maintain that Foucault’s idea of counter-discourse brings his thought in line with the Hegelian dialectic, Foucault himself argues against such a comparison.
While the Hegelian pairs of thesis — antithesis simultaneously arise in conformance with a proposed teleology in which a World Spirit progresses through history, Foucault suggests that counter-discourse arises after the implementation of a discourse. Moreover, Foucault envisions no grand, master plan of teleological unfolding as in Hegelian thought. Instead, his poststructural perspective is discontinuous and largely open-ended.
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dis・course
, 
━━ n. 講話, 講演; 説教; 論文 ((on, upon)); 【文法】話法; 【言】談話; 【哲】言説, ディスクール.
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v. 講演［論述］する; 談話する ((on, upon, of)).
discourse analysis 【言】談話分析.
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v. 講演［論述］する; 談話する ((on, upon, of)). discourse analysis 【言】談話分析.
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