RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Donna Haraway
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Purpose of class meant to think about: continuing our idea of the politics of difference (charles taylor, if committed to pluralism how do you accommodate difference? recognition of difference going to be some sort of encounter. Find a way to use words and arguments differently. One way is get rid of plurality, treat everyone the same. Donna haraway and martin luther king jr. Case of rhetoric letter from birmingham jail. Difficulty of waiting, try to relate and wait doesn"t complete thought until end of paragraph. A must do x and do y built in throughout, protect and punish opposite extremes. Both a theory of dialogue and a theory of mutual reconition, move from miss/shallow. Two opposite extremes, either yes, no / or one way or the other . Just as x sentence require a certain way to be finished : so too x . Semantic pairs recognition into an issue for blacks and whites equally!
