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		<title>The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying by Jeffrey P. Bishop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible that death in some significant way constitutes the core, the very heart of contemporary medicine? Jeffrey P. Bishop argues in his recent book, The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, that such is not only possible but is in fact the case. As both a physician and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://percaritatem.com/2012/02/01/the-anticipatory-corpse-medicine-power-and-the-care-of-the-dying-by-jeffrey-p-bishop/</link>
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		<title>On Jazz and Life: Playing Imperfectly in Real Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The term, “improvisation,” is often used in colloquial speech to connote activities, actions, or plans undertaken with little or no forethought or preparation. Similar ascriptions have been applied to musical improvisation—jazz in particular—in order to suggest that improvised music lacks the technical, intellectual, and cultural complexities and refinements of traditional Western classical music. As I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://percaritatem.com/2012/01/24/on-jazz-and-life-playing-imperfectly-in-real-time/</link>
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		<title>Look, a White! Philosophical Essays on Whiteness by Professor George Yancy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those interested in critical race theory and “whiteness” studies in particular, Professor George Yancy’s new book, Look, a White! Philosophical Essays on Whiteness, is a valuable resource.  Dr. Yancy is an associate professor of philosophy at Dusquesne University. He is a well-known scholar in critical race theory and has written, edited, and taught on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://percaritatem.com/2012/01/17/look-a-white-philosophical-essays-on-whiteness-by-professor-george-yancy/</link>
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		<title>Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. in 2012: On How Not to Sleep Through a Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking as his point of departure the story of Rip Van Winkle, who, having slept for twenty years, awakens to a world he hardly recognizes, Martin Luther King Jr. develops the analogy in his speech, “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” to speak to contemporary issues of his day—issues still alive and well in our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://percaritatem.com/2012/01/13/martin-luther-king-jr-on-how-not-to-sleep-through-a-revolution/</link>
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		<title>Peter Kivy’s Bach Bird Example, de Saussure, and the Already Present Significance of Music and Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Michael Krausz’s article, The Tonal and The Foundational:  Ansermet on Stravinsky, Krausz argues against Ansermet’s claim that Stravinsky’s atonal music is both sub-standard and unnatural.  Krausz approaches the issue from a non-foundationalist epistemology, “which assumes that there are no uninterpreted facts of the matter and no single ahistorical Archimedean interpretive framework from which we can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://percaritatem.com/2012/01/06/peter-kivy%e2%80%99s-bach-bird-example-de-saussure-and-the-already-present-significance-of-music-and-language/</link>
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		<title>Resistance Through Re-narration Available Online at African Identities: Journal of Economics, Culture, and Society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those interested, my essay, &#8220;Resistance Through Re-narration: Fanon on De-constructing Racialized Subjectivities,&#8221; African Identities: Journal of  Economics, Culture, and Society 9:4 (Dec. 2011): 363-85. DOI:  10.1080/14725843.2011.61441o, is now available for online viewing.  ABSTRACT Frantz Fanon offers a lucid account of his entrance into the white world where the weightiness of the ‘white gaze’ nearly crushed him. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://percaritatem.com/2011/12/09/resistance-through-re-narration-available-online-at-african-identities-journal-of-economics-culture-and-society/</link>
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		<title>Overmedicated, Unwanted, Stigmatized, Powerless: America’s (Forgotten) Foster Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Sharon Hays, Loïc Wacquant, and others have shown, dominant cultural narratives dispersed via mass media, political campaigns, educational and religious institutions and the like play a significant role in constructing social identities—for example, the “welfare queen,” the “black” male criminal, etc. Such narratives, along with others downplaying social responsibility (and overemphasizing an ahistorical, race-less, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://percaritatem.com/2011/12/03/overmedicated-unwanted-stigmatized-powerless-america%e2%80%99s-forgotten-foster-children/</link>
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		<title>Gregory on the Compatibility of Augustinian Liberalism and a Feminist Ethic of Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading Eric Gregory’s excellent book, Politics &#38; the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship.  Although I do not have time to give a full review of the book, I want to summarize and highlight some of the themes that I have found intriguing and noteworthy. First, besides chapters devoted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://percaritatem.com/2011/11/25/gregory-on-the-compatibility-of-augustinian-liberalism-and-a-feminist-ethic-of-care/</link>
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		<title>Négritude’s Role in Reforming Marxism and the Relevance of the “Race” Question for All Human Beings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), engaging in deconstruction before deconstruction began, calls Western Enlightenment to account for its uncivilized practices and its inability to deal with the concrete, existentio-political concerns of people “on the ground.” That is, European “Western civilization” for all its claims to Enlightenment and progress has proved “incapable of solving the two major problems to which its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://percaritatem.com/2011/11/08/negritude%e2%80%99s-role-in-reforming-marxism-and-the-relevance-of-the-%e2%80%9crace%e2%80%9d-question-for-all-human-beings/</link>
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		<title>Feminist Perspectives on Music as Performative and Political</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Related to my previous post on the philosophy of music, I want to say a few words about feminist perspectives of music, which like Adorno’s and Attali’s accounts are also attuned to the social and political dimensions of music. In particular, feminist musicologists such as Susan McClary and Ruth A. Solie seek to unearth the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://percaritatem.com/2011/10/29/feminist-perspectives-on-music-as-performative-and-political/</link>
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