Knowledge Commons | Meili Steele | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/steelem/activity/ Activity feed for Meili Steele. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 11af356b2a343a85dfceafe68a4a1b51 Meili Steele deposited Discursive Incarceration: Black Fragility in a Divided Public Sphere https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900399/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:15:34 -0400 Abstract: The expression of fragility has always been a difficult and complex matter for African Americans, for the discourse of mainstream media is set up to sustain their fragility while at the same time misrecognizing it. Even though the black public sphere split off from the dominant public sphere after the Civil War to enable distinctive…[Read more]

]]> 0 1df6d9aa8c768f0e268116565270ce06 Meili Steele deposited Ontologie linguistique et dialogue politique chez Bakhtine in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884711/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:52 -0400 The essay examines the strengths and weakness of Bakhtin's dialogical ontology.

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]]> 0 f53e06b962039e6b37e7f16a4d92be16 Meili Steele deposited Three Problamtics of Linguistic Vulnerability: Gadamer, Benhabib, and Butler in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884692/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:31:22 -0400 Three Problematics of Linguistic Vulnerability: Gadamer, Benhabib, and Butler
Debates in feminist political philosophy often focus on what problematic(s) to use in order to understand normative ideals, gendered differences, and their histories. For the purposes of this chapter, I will contrast two important problematics in these debates, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 30e5c0408715616fef5b04c2605deaa1 Meili Steele deposited Three Problamtics of Linguistic Vulnerability: Gadamer, Benhabib, and Butler in the group Literary theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884690/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:30:58 -0400 Three Problematics of Linguistic Vulnerability: Gadamer, Benhabib, and Butler
Debates in feminist political philosophy often focus on what problematic(s) to use in order to understand normative ideals, gendered differences, and their histories. For the purposes of this chapter, I will contrast two important problematics in these debates, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a8def7852bb18af268dbda69cd242f3 Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History: Habermas's Elision of Public Imagination in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884689/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:30:53 -0400 Hiding from History: Habermas’s Model of Political Deliberation
Meili Steele

Jürgen Habermas’s recent interventions in disputes about public history have served to underscore the failure of his philosophy to address an issue crucial to any democratic community: how to deliberate about one’s symbolic inheritance. His well-known immuni…[Read more]

]]> 0 27bdd73f91d112402e5e0e6adcf4175f Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History: Habermas's Elision of Public Imagination in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884688/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:30:44 -0400 Hiding from History: Habermas’s Model of Political Deliberation
Meili Steele

Jürgen Habermas’s recent interventions in disputes about public history have served to underscore the failure of his philosophy to address an issue crucial to any democratic community: how to deliberate about one’s symbolic inheritance. His well-known immuni…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f95984feac6bf959af4f6422b1e04e1 Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History: Habermas's Elision of Public Imagination in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884687/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:30:40 -0400 Hiding from History: Habermas’s Model of Political Deliberation
Meili Steele

Jürgen Habermas’s recent interventions in disputes about public history have served to underscore the failure of his philosophy to address an issue crucial to any democratic community: how to deliberate about one’s symbolic inheritance. His well-known immuni…[Read more]

]]> 0 0ef199a140796367ebb128989de1592a Meili Steele deposited Ontologie linguistique et dialogue politique chez Bakhtine https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884432/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:40:16 -0400 The essay examines the strengths and weakness of Bakhtin's dialogical ontology.

]]> 0 11703d225e441c598ca51a1233b469cf Meili Steele deposited Three Problamtics of Linguistic Vulnerability: Gadamer, Benhabib, and Butler https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884328/ Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:30:46 -0400 Three Problematics of Linguistic Vulnerability: Gadamer, Benhabib, and Butler
Debates in feminist political philosophy often focus on what problematic(s) to use in order to understand normative ideals, gendered differences, and their histories. For the purposes of this chapter, I will contrast two important problematics in these debates, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c6e5b425b0dee708182622f6ced789f5 Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History: Habermas's Elision of Public Imagination https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884322/ Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:11:15 -0400 Hiding from History: Habermas’s Model of Political Deliberation
Meili Steele

Jürgen Habermas’s recent interventions in disputes about public history have served to underscore the failure of his philosophy to address an issue crucial to any democratic community: how to deliberate about one’s symbolic inheritance. His well-known immuni…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b169e3af83c43d13ebc09e2aa5e2dc7 Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History, Introduction, ch 3 in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683758/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 03:49:02 -0400 This book challenges an assumption at the heart of contemporary theoretical debates: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought “hide from history”: liberal philosophies of public reason as espoused by such figures as Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum and stru…[Read more]

]]> 0 6227d55b57da6ee389174f2207b88a7b Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History, Introduction, ch 3 in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683757/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 03:48:57 -0400 This book challenges an assumption at the heart of contemporary theoretical debates: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought “hide from history”: liberal philosophies of public reason as espoused by such figures as Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum and stru…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea4ad60886c77cc4d20b7142700cc293 Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History, Introduction, ch 3 in the group Literary theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683756/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 03:48:51 -0400 This book challenges an assumption at the heart of contemporary theoretical debates: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought “hide from history”: liberal philosophies of public reason as espoused by such figures as Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum and stru…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b0fc2218e89f3dea56ff534b0c58742 Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History, Introduction, ch 3 in the group Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683755/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 03:48:47 -0400 This book challenges an assumption at the heart of contemporary theoretical debates: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought “hide from history”: liberal philosophies of public reason as espoused by such figures as Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum and stru…[Read more]

]]> 0 2417a7fc53a0aec03fd4c55aad36c020 Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History, Introduction, ch 3 in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683754/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 03:48:45 -0400 This book challenges an assumption at the heart of contemporary theoretical debates: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought “hide from history”: liberal philosophies of public reason as espoused by such figures as Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum and stru…[Read more]

]]> 0 98e6bb97f13289361ab174ce68ab24d6 Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History, Introduction, ch 3 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1683749/ Sun, 12 Apr 2020 17:49:30 -0400 This book challenges an assumption at the heart of contemporary theoretical debates: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought “hide from history”: liberal philosophies of public reason as espoused by such figures as Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum and stru…[Read more]

]]> 0 445978eaf2294ffb1700baabde4ec06c Meili Steele deposited Arendt versus Ellison on Little Rock: The Role of Language in Political Judgment in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640413/ Fri, 17 May 2019 16:25:28 -0400 Few of Arendt's writings have drawn more criticism from her own supporters than "Reflections on LIttle Rock," in which she opposes the federally mandated desegregation of schools. I take Arendt's comments as a way of opening up problems in her conception of the relationship among political storytelling, plurality and judgment. I do this through a…[Read more]

]]> 0 776e5e0edbdb62458648f3ba26f30839 Meili Steele deposited Arendt versus Ellison on Little Rock: The Role of Language in Political Judgment in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640412/ Fri, 17 May 2019 16:25:25 -0400 Few of Arendt's writings have drawn more criticism from her own supporters than "Reflections on LIttle Rock," in which she opposes the federally mandated desegregation of schools. I take Arendt's comments as a way of opening up problems in her conception of the relationship among political storytelling, plurality and judgment. I do this through a…[Read more]

]]> 0 8da9559b4252d093e5c2824a01fca1fd Meili Steele deposited Arendt versus Ellison on Little Rock: The Role of Language in Political Judgment in the group Literary theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640411/ Fri, 17 May 2019 16:25:23 -0400 Few of Arendt's writings have drawn more criticism from her own supporters than "Reflections on LIttle Rock," in which she opposes the federally mandated desegregation of schools. I take Arendt's comments as a way of opening up problems in her conception of the relationship among political storytelling, plurality and judgment. I do this through a…[Read more]

]]> 0 89be63cf3fef418b5b04cc3d17f2b1c9 Meili Steele deposited Arendt versus Ellison on Little Rock: The Role of Language in Political Judgment in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640410/ Fri, 17 May 2019 16:25:21 -0400 Few of Arendt's writings have drawn more criticism from her own supporters than "Reflections on LIttle Rock," in which she opposes the federally mandated desegregation of schools. I take Arendt's comments as a way of opening up problems in her conception of the relationship among political storytelling, plurality and judgment. I do this through a…[Read more]

]]> 0 0db6aaa838213bdc79b556d189f26095 Meili Steele deposited Arendt versus Ellison on Little Rock: The Role of Language in Political Judgment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640354/ Fri, 17 May 2019 00:13:48 -0400 Few of Arendt's writings have drawn more criticism from her own supporters than "Reflections on LIttle Rock," in which she opposes the federally mandated desegregation of schools. I take Arendt's comments as a way of opening up problems in her conception of the relationship among political storytelling, plurality and judgment. I do this through a…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b93fcc3513b42391e3fad5dcd1f3ca4 Meili Steele deposited Social Imaginaries and the Theory of the Normative Utterance in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640130/ Sun, 12 May 2019 16:25:41 -0400 From Charles Taylor to Marcel Gauchet, theorists of the social imaginary have given us new ways
to talk about the shared structures of meanings and practices of the West. Theorists of this group
have argued against the narrow horizons of meaning that are deployed by deliberative political
theories in developing their basic normative concepts…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab7be886615aed89ded8f7063d4e1857 Meili Steele deposited Social Imaginaries and the Theory of the Normative Utterance in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640129/ Sun, 12 May 2019 16:25:39 -0400 From Charles Taylor to Marcel Gauchet, theorists of the social imaginary have given us new ways
to talk about the shared structures of meanings and practices of the West. Theorists of this group
have argued against the narrow horizons of meaning that are deployed by deliberative political
theories in developing their basic normative concepts…[Read more]

]]> 0 74ee96f11ceb4b91a829a17de1ea8175 Meili Steele deposited Social Imaginaries and the Theory of the Normative Utterance in the group Literary theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640128/ Sun, 12 May 2019 16:25:37 -0400 From Charles Taylor to Marcel Gauchet, theorists of the social imaginary have given us new ways
to talk about the shared structures of meanings and practices of the West. Theorists of this group
have argued against the narrow horizons of meaning that are deployed by deliberative political
theories in developing their basic normative concepts…[Read more]

]]> 0 b52a4cc5ec5c73b21282770b46cd4a27 Meili Steele deposited Social Imaginaries and the Theory of the Normative Utterance in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640127/ Sun, 12 May 2019 16:25:36 -0400 From Charles Taylor to Marcel Gauchet, theorists of the social imaginary have given us new ways
to talk about the shared structures of meanings and practices of the West. Theorists of this group
have argued against the narrow horizons of meaning that are deployed by deliberative political
theories in developing their basic normative concepts…[Read more]

]]> 0 4cede0de3e3f4e771ed7176c790ab2e3 Meili Steele deposited The Philosophical Importance of Henry James's Late Style in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640126/ Sun, 12 May 2019 16:25:33 -0400 When speaking of the philosophical importance of James’s late style, critics and philosophers have taken two broad approaches. One route, exemplified by Martha Nussbaum, attributes this style to the sensitivity of the characters. The other, exemplified by Robert Pippin, attributes the writing’s complexity to the ambiguities of the moral codes dur…[Read more]

]]> 0 37ee9cce62901b625205b9e5367d3d5e Meili Steele deposited The Philosophical Importance of Henry James's Late Style in the group Literary theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640125/ Sun, 12 May 2019 16:25:31 -0400 When speaking of the philosophical importance of James’s late style, critics and philosophers have taken two broad approaches. One route, exemplified by Martha Nussbaum, attributes this style to the sensitivity of the characters. The other, exemplified by Robert Pippin, attributes the writing’s complexity to the ambiguities of the moral codes dur…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ea149db0f8584f2c058b3b4431e543f Meili Steele deposited Social Imaginaries and the Theory of the Normative Utterance https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640080/ Sat, 11 May 2019 19:28:00 -0400 From Charles Taylor to Marcel Gauchet, theorists of the social imaginary have given us new ways
to talk about the shared structures of meanings and practices of the West. Theorists of this group
have argued against the narrow horizons of meaning that are deployed by deliberative political
theories in developing their basic normative concepts…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ac3a1b8042f6c86c20b2929c4aec461 Meili Steele deposited The Philosophical Importance of Henry James's Late Style https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640079/ Sat, 11 May 2019 19:14:47 -0400 When speaking of the philosophical importance of James’s late style, critics and philosophers have taken two broad approaches. One route, exemplified by Martha Nussbaum, attributes this style to the sensitivity of the characters. The other, exemplified by Robert Pippin, attributes the writing’s complexity to the ambiguities of the moral codes dur…[Read more]

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