The politics of difference vs the ethics of essentializing looking back and looking forward in humanities discourse about human nature

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 125-144

  Gregory, Marshall ^a  

^a BUTLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constnictedness; Empirical; Epistemotogy; Esseutialism; Ethnocentrism; Humanist humanities; Linguistic indeterminism; Postmodern(ist)(ism); Uucapturable difference

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344466118     PISSN: 14740222     EISSN: 1741265X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474022202001002002     Document Type: Article

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