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By William Irwin

Designed for philosophers in addition to readers with out specific philosophical heritage, the essays during this energetic booklet are grouped into 4 fun acts. Act One appears to be like on the 4 Seinfeld characters via a philosophical lens and comprises Jerry and Socrates: The tested lifestyles? Act examines historic philosophers from a Seinfeldian perspective and gives Plato or Nietzsche? Time, Essence, and everlasting Recurrence in Seinfeld. Act 3, premature Meditations through the Water Cooler, explores philosophical matters raised through the convey, equivalent to, Is it rational for George to do the other? And Act 4, Is There something fallacious with That?, discusses moral difficulties of way of life utilizing Seinfeld as a foundation. Seinfeld and Philosophy additionally presents a advisor to Seinfeld episodes and a chronological record of the philosophers brought up during this publication.

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7 THIS IS MY HISTORY 29 For active perpetrators of apartheid terror — police officers, army conscripts, members of state “hit squads” and “counter-terrorism” units — this narrative had particular significance, as it blunted the potentially traumatizing effects of the atrocities they committed. Journalist Stephen Laufer examines the careful language that the state used to describe its activities: The conspiracy needed a sanitised phrase with no suggestion of blood. No suggestion of agony or loss, morality gone AWOL.

The TRC can be seen, that is, as a ritualized mourning process — a national memorial service for the victims of apartheid, past and present, which helps survivors confront their losses and those suffered by others. As a process of public mourning that acknowledges the multiple and often contradictory traumas experienced by communities and individuals throughout the country, the Commission thus encourages South Africans of all races to engage their history and imagine a larger, national community based on a common, though divergent, experience of loss.

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