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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 3, Matthew Melko, Jon Roper, Arthur A. Molitierno, Michael Ponsford, Robert E. Fleming, Alan Nadel, Phyllis Janik, Jennings M. Blackmon, Jo Mcdougall, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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These are normal times, not crisis times, in the other-end-of-the-telescope view of MATTHEW MELKO, and we should value this age as such and use this insight to improve the lives of others and ourselves. A professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a pioneer in worldview studies, Melko's essay here summarizes thoughts which will shortly be given book-length treatment by Paragon. This is Melko's second article in The Midwest Quarterly.

JON ROPER discusses the ethical dimension of democracy as it passed from the Greeks to Americans …

Hegel's Ambiguous Legacy For Modern Liberalism, Charles Taylor

Cardozo Law Review

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 2, Robert Wexelblatt, Kenneth L. Golden, Christopher S. Durer, William Casement, Wheeler Winston Dixon, James I. Weingartner, Mark Christhilf, Tom Saya, Kathleen Johnson, Richard Tucker, Duncan Moran, Phil Stephens, Michael J. O'Brien, Elmer Suderman, Marion Schoeberlein, Sidney R. Thompson, Hugh C. Abernethy Jr., Al Ortolani, Jo Mcdougall, James D. Miley, Pamela Yenser, Twyla Hansen, Amil Quayle, Christopher Cokinos, Michael A. Carey, Angela Cooper, V. J. Emmett Jr., Charles Cagle, Gene Degruson, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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Out of nothing, something. ROBERT WEXELBLATT examines the meaning of the creative act and scrutinizes the first sentences of major works to illustrate the writer's power to fashion time and place and character in the choice, juxtaposition, and concatenation of words. Now Chairperson of the Division of Humanities at Boston University, Wexelblatt writes scholarly articles on literary subjects (recently on Fitzgerald, Lawrence, Camus, and Nietzsche), stories, and poetry, as well as essays, several of which have graced The Midwest Quarterly.

Literary critics too frequently mistake the leaves for the forest, and by failing to explore …

Welfare, Contract, And The Language Of Charity, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

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Discourse And Perspective In Daoism: A Linguistic Interpretation Of Ziran, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In Chinese philosophical literature, the term zirana is generally rendered as "spontaneity," "natural," or "self-so" by both Chinese and Western trans- lators. I think that these translations not only miss the point being made in the texts, but actually serve to obscure it

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 1, John Z. Guzlowski, David A. Godfrey, Phyllis Cole Braunlich, Walter Shear, Thomas D. Isern, Theodore R. Hovet, Amy Clampitt, Paul Jenkins, Jo Mcdougall, Christopher Howell, Jeff Worley, Linda Taylor, Denise Low, Elaine Mott, Ellen Watson, Ellen Wittlinger, Cynthia Chapman, Michael Van Walleghen, Al Ortolani, Thomas R. Walther, George G. Suggs Jr., V. J. Emmett Jr., Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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The fiction of William Burroughs focuses on control and the illusion of personal freedom, a situation JOHN Z. GUZLOWSKI finds reinforced in the author's treatment of the family. A teacher in the English Department of Eastern Illinois University and Editor of Karamu, a poetry and fiction magazine, Guzlowski’s work on recent American fiction has appeared in a variety of journals.

Ways of understanding can at times become ways of avoiding reality and real comprehension. Such was the case in Edith Wharton’s Old New York, as discussed by DAVID A. GODFREY. Currently a lecturer at the …

Freeman, Mead, And The Eighteenth-Century Controversy Over Polynesian Society, David B. Paxman

Pacific Studies

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Karen P. Sinclair's Review Of Lola Romanucci-Ross's Mead’S Other Manus: Phenomenology Of The Encounter, Karen P. Sinclair

Pacific Studies

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 29 No. 4, Judith Weissman, Elizabeth Dodd, K. Narayana Chandran, Malcom O. Magaw, Jane M. Devyver, Charlotte Rotkin, Grace Butcher, William Virgil Davis, Connie May Fowler, Sandra Fowler, Ben Howard, Richard Smyth, Steve Wilson, Howard Winn, Pamela Yenser, Walter Shear, V. J. Emmett Jr., Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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JUDITH WEISSMAN revisions the later work of Emily Dickinson as that of a lucid, sane, generous, less volcanic woman more at ease with herself and her beliefs. A specialist in nineteenth-century poetry and fiction and Professor of English at Syracuse University, Weissman published Half Savage and Hardy and Free: Woman and Rural Radicalism in the Nineteenth-Century Novel last year. She is presently working on a book dealing with poetry and the theory of the bicameral mind.

Mindful of Ezra Pound's boast he was "in such a beautiful position to save the public's soul by punching …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 29 No. 3, John W. Murphy, James F. Lea, Robert M. Randolph, Sanford Pinkser, David Lloyd Jones, Susan Materese, Paul Salmon, Bert Almon, Stephen C. Behrendt, Mark Christhilf, Myron Ernst, Robert Funge, Christopher D. Guerin, Sally Herrin, Dionisio D. Martínez, Rich Murphy, Anne Ohman-Youngs, Kenneth Pobo, Gregory A. Ryan, Diane Moon Sautter, Kenneth Shaffer, William Winfield, Jo Mcdougall, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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JOHN W. MURPHY describes the discontents and contentions of postmodernism in assessing the world of today, be it science, religion, or other institutions in society, and suggests modernism's emphasis on order may exact a higher price than the imprecision of postmodernism. Currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Arkansas State University, Murphy has, in addition to numerous articles, published The Social Philosophy of Martin Buber, The Underside of High-tech, and Technology and Human Productivity.

Americans should celebrate their Constitution's two-hundredth anniversary by considering changes in the fundamental law, not simply by congratulating themselves on its longevity …

Confucius, Mencius And The Notion Of True Succession, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

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The Doctrine Of Eternal Return, Tracy Burr Strong

Research Resources

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The Ontological Basis Of Legal Hermeneutics: A Proposed Model Of Inquiry Based On The Work Of Gadamer, Habermas And Ricoeur, Francis J. Mootz Iii

Scholarly Works

This paper provides a detailed account of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and its relationship to contemporary problems in legal theory. I first demonstrate that Gadamer's approach charts a course between the inflated claims of critical legal studies and the subjectivism of the law and literature movement. I then interrogate the hermeneutical approach from the perspective of Habermas's critical theory. I conclude that Ricoeur's intervention in the Gadamer-Habermas debate helps significantly to draw out the critical elements of Gadamer's work. I conclude by developing new model of legal practice and theory grounded in the textuality of law.

Some Remarks About Philosophical Arguments For The Necessity Of Dialogue As A Condition For Human Existence, Krystyna Gorniak

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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The Hau Of The Gift In Its Cultural Context, David Thompson

Pacific Studies

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Andrew Strathern's Review Of Geoffrey M. White And John Kirkpatrick's Person, Self, And Experience: Exploring Pacific Ethnopsychologies, Andrew Strathern

Pacific Studies

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Bruce Biggs's Review Of F. Allan Hanson And Louise Hanson's Counterpoint In Maori Culture, Bruce Biggs

Pacific Studies

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 28 No. 4, Edward M. Wheat, A. Carl Bredahl, Liz Porter Hankins, Earl G. Ingersoll, Carol A. Martin, H. Wendell Howard, Denise Low, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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Walt Whitman, according to EDWARD M. WHEAT, conceived of Leaves of Grass as a means of expressing and reinvigorating America’s democratic ideals, an epic intending revolutionary change. Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of American Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi, Wheat has published several articles related to his research interests in politics and literature, political culture and socialization, and public administration.

A. CARL BREDAHL intends to rescue from undeserved insignificance Ernest Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa, an effort he hopes to expand into a book-length manuscript. Bredahl is Professor of English …

The Dialectics Of Power In The Maori Creation Myth, Samuel K. Parker

Pacific Studies

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 28 No. 3, David R. Pichaske, Paul Mccarthy, Chris Anderson, Tom Hibbard, Beth Kraig, Roy Lechtreck, Kelly Averill, Jack Folsom, Edward Locke, Ramón E. Martinéz, Janet Mccann, Marilee Richards, David Williams, Kathleen L. Nichols, G. W. Clift, Charles Cagle, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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Observing the recent renascence of the Midwest, DAVID R. PICHASKE takes his readers on a tour with stops in Alliance and Springfield, Illinois, Madison, Minnesota, and the Platte River Valley in Nebraska. He finds decay and an understanding of what has been lost, tempered with hope for the future. Associate Professor and Chairman of the English Department at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota, Pichaske has written three books (Chaucer's Literary Pilgrimage and A Generation in Motion being the most recent) along with articles and poems in a wide variety of venues.

Thoreau's eye, so …

Book Review Forum On Valerio Valeri's Kingship And Sacrifice: Ritual And Society In Ancient Hawaii, John Charlot, Valerio Valeri

Pacific Studies

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Organ Procurement, Values And Public Policy, Ronald P. Hamel

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The success of organ transplants in recent years has created a shortage of transplantable cadaver organs. Voluntarism, the primary mode of organ procurement currently in use nationwide, appears to be no longer successful. Policy makers and others are examining alternatives to the current system, namely, presumed consent (routine salvaging) and required request. In this process, there is a danger in considering only the effectiveness of the means and neglecting the value and belief commitments that underlie them. These need to be brought to the surface because they ultimately contribute toward shaping the moral character of society. In this light, required …

The Explanatory Power Of Radical Behaviorism, Barry Schwartz, Hugh Lacey

Psychology Faculty Works

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On The Applicability Of Applicability, Barry Schwartz, Hugh Lacey

Psychology Faculty Works

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 28 No. 2, Ronald Larson, Betty R. Mcgraw, Rodney O. Fox, Struan Jacobs, Katherine H. Burkman, J. Reid Meloy, Michael J. Strada, Albert E. Wilhelm, Jimmy Aubert, Marguerite Bouvard, Neal Bowers, Sandra Berris, Mike Catherwood, Ann Conner, Carl Djerassi, George Gott, Fleda Brown Jackson, Ernest Kroll, Walter Mcdonald, Barbara Moore, Joseph Raffa, Alison T. Reed, Gregory A. Ryan, Rebecca Thompson, Richard J. Weekley, Gary W. Clift, Charles Cagle, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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Egalitarianism begets totalitarianism and antisemitism. That is the provocative thesis of RONALD LARSON. Professor of Social Science at Wytheville Community College in Virginia and playwright, Larson has studied and written about modem narcissism in a number of different forums.

BETTY R. McGRAW and RODNEY O. FOX link literature and science to explore the modem view of life's basic components as lacking the certainty and unity so apparent to earlier generations of philosophers, scientists, and writers, and they end with a mention of new topics for consideration. McGraw is Associate Professor of French and Fox is …

Valerio Valeri's Review Of André Itéanu's La Ronde Des Échanges: De La Circulation Aux Valeurs Chez Les Orokaiva, Valerio Valeri

Pacific Studies

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 28 No. 1, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Donald Wayne Viney, James Doyle, David Dooley, Robert A. Frost, Fran Avnet Goldstein, Robert Hays, Tony Park, Cynthia Pederson, Martha M. Vertreace, Marlis Manley Broadhead, Robert Harlow, Fleda Brown Jackson, George Looney, Denise Low, William Page, Robert Wexelblatt, Steven R. Centola, Oscar Salinas, Eileen T. Bender, Eric Pankey, Clark Brown, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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MAXINE SHEETS-JOHNSTONE uses a study of hunting activities to inform a new view of humans as more than sensory receptors dangling from the intelligent brain. With a doctorate in dance and study toward a second doctorate in zoology, Sheets-Johnstone has written two books on dance and has published numerous articles on philosophical anthropology in journals devoted to science, philosophy, the humanities, and the arts. She is presently gathering material for a book on the paleonanthropological hermeneutics of the body. She has taught at U.C.L.A., in the S.U.N.Y. system, at the University of Waterloo in Canada, …

Marx, Justice, And The Dialectic Method, Philip J. Kain

Philosophy

An interesting controversy has recently been provoked by Allen Wood. He argues that capitalism, for Marx, "cannot be faulted as far as justice is concerned." For Marx, the concept of justice belonging to any society is rooted in, grows out of, and expresses that particular society's mode of production. Justice is not a standard by which human reason in the abstract measures actions or institutions--there is no eternal, unchanging norm of justice. Each social epoch gives rise to its own standard; each generally lives up to it; and each must be measured by this standard alone. Thus, in Wood's view, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 4, William O'Neill, A. Carl Bredahl, Thomas Lavassi, Susan L. Roberson, Michael Ponsford, Fred Madden, Baloian, Sandra Berris, Michael Burns, Celia Daniels, Zoe Filipkowski, Russell T. Fowler, Diane Glancy, David Kerner, Hillary Lyon, Stephen Meats, Carolann Russell, Darrel G. H. Schramm, Walter Shear, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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That James Joyce was concerned that his audience understood Bloom and Stephen were going about lives matched with Ulysses and Telemachus has become clear, but his purpose in doing so is the subject of WILLIAM O'NEILL. Author of short stories, reviews, and an article on Yeats in this journal, O'Neill teaches English at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

A. CARL BREDAHL develops Sherwood Anderson's alternative to the novel form, a "divided narrative," by examining Winesburg, Ohio. With numerous publications on writers as diverse as Charles Brockden Brown, Herman Melville, Harold Frederic, John Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, and …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 3, Mark Christhilf, Thomas R. Vale, Geraldine R. Vale, Edward L. Galligan, James Barbour, William C. Dowling, Charles M. Redenius, Matthew Melko, Lola Haskins, Regan Good, Ruth Good, Thom Tammaro, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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Wishing to help us see what his words suggest, the poet struggles to give expression to images. W. S. Merwin, explains MARK CHRISTHILF, makes use of the work of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, among other painters, in bringing to his readers an understanding of what Merwin's generous eye beheld. Poet and critic, Christhilf teaches English at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. He has poetry in Karamu, and is writing a book entitled, W. S. Merwin the Mythmaker.

LOLA HASKINS lives on a ranch north of Gainesville Florida and teaches computer science classes at the …