Flexing the Nexus
Monday, April 15th, 2013
Rereading Toni Morrison’s foreword to Sula at the end of the novel was indispensable in cementing my comprehension of the story. While I understand that the desire to have an audience consider a text alongside a set of principles requires a strategic placement of them, Morrison’s preface doesn’t do justice to the words that follow; […]
Flexing the Nexus
Tags: Nathaniel Hawthorne, relativism, Religion, Sula, The Scarlet Letter, Time, Toni Morrison, Truth
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Science & Religion
Monday, February 18th, 2013
For as long as the two have existed, the worlds of science and religion have been at war. It is not because of mutual hatred or a desire to dominate human consciousness (although I’m sure this plays some part in certain battles). Rather, it is that the two lines of thought are constantly contradicting each […]
Science & Religion
Tags: Foucault, Peiss, Power-Relations, Religion, Science, The Scarlet Letter
Posted in February 19, Nadia Cook-Loshilov | 3 Comments »