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COVER INTERVIEW OF


May 23, 2017

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Stephen Sheehi

 

On his book The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860–1910

 

Tag: Identity

Cover Interview of February 14, 2013
Richard Ned Lebow On his book The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves

Cover Interview of March 04, 2012
Katrin Pahl On her book Tropes of Transport: Hegel and Emotion

Cover Interview of September 20, 2011
Erich S. Gruen On his book Rethinking the Other in Antiquity

 
 
 


[T]he Holocaust transformed our whole way of thinking about war and heroism. War is no longer a proving ground for heroism in the same way it used to be. Instead, war now is something that we must avoid at all costs—because genocides often take place under the cover of war. We are no longer all potential soldiers (though we are that too), but we are all potential victims of the traumas war creates. This, at least, is one important development in the way Western populations envision war, even if it does not always predominate in the thinking of our political leaders.

Carolyn J. Dean,
Interview of February 01, 2011




The dominant premise in evolution and economics is that a person is being loyal to natural law if he or she attends to self’s interest and welfare before being concerned with the needs and demands of family or community. The public does not realize that this statement is not an established scientific principle but an ethical preference. Nonetheless, this belief has created a moral confusion among North Americans and Europeans because the evolution of our species was accompanied by the disposition to worry about kin and the collectives to which one belongs.

Jerome Kagan,
Interview of September 17, 2009




 
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