A Rhetoric of Remnants Professor James BeverExamines the rhetoric in and around the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, New York from 1854 to 1884. In the nineteenth century, language, rather than biology, created what we think of as disability. Much of the rhetorical nature of "idiocy," and even intelligence itself, can be traced to the period when the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse first opened in 1854 memorialized today as the first public school for people considered
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This innovative contribution to understanding the promise and contradictions of contemporary postcolonial culture applies a wide array of theoretical tools to a large body of literature
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exploring the ways in which some Brahman intellectuals sought to defend the hierarchies of caste against the social changes of the early modern era while others looked for compromise
By one of the foremost experts in Indo-European and Classical linguistics
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arguing consistently that prospects for richer lives and improved communities rested not upon trust in spiritual or material prescriptions
In Deference to the Other brings contemporary continental thought into conversation with that of Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984)
