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Omri Ceren is a PhD candidate studying Rhetoric at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. He lives in downtown Los Angeles.
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Archive for July, 2007
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Habermas: The Ideal Speech Situation Is A Bad Model For The Ideal Speech Situation
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Habermas’s Peircean Fallibilism
After all of the underbrush of Between Facts and Norms is cleared – all the constitutional identity stuff, all the deliberative democracy stuff, etc – there’s still the naive question: what, exactly is between facts and norms? This is obviously the space where facticity intersects with validity, but that’s a trivial result based as much [...] -
What Isn’t Argument?
We’ve been going back and forth with a colleague who has a near-reflexive need to want to expand the horizon of what counts as “argument”. As near as we can tell, argument for him is present whenever speakers gesture toward the form of an argument – that is, when they go through the motions of [...] -
Prof. Nietzsche Frowns Upon Your Glib Globalized Paradigms
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“Nietzsche Was A Nihilist” And “Nietzsche Was An Anti-Semite” Had A Race To the Bottom. “Nietzsche Was A Nihilist” Won.
We were planning to start our Nietzsche and nihilism post with some glib and dismissive bluster. Title: “Was Nietzsche A Nihilist?”; entirety of first paragraph: “No.” However – of the two arrogant mistakes that a student can make – the swagger of a second-year undergrad who argues that some intellectual giant is “just wrong,” and [...] -
Rhetoric Not So Much With the Revolution Thing
For some reason, dealing seriously with language ingrains in a scholar a certain skepticism when it comes to revolutionary change. Lacan, for instance, is at his most explicitly rhetorical when developing his theory of the Four Discourses. His famous and prescient retort to student revolutionaries during May ‘68, coincidentally the time he was developing the [...] -
Welcome to IIS
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