Sentences with phrase «social historians invent»

On no more than the basis that «climate change is occurring», moral philosophers tell us what is right, social historians invent lessons from history to make climate criminals in the present, science historians invent conspiracy theorists, and psychologists tell us how to apply distress to change public opinion, and why debate is just too risky to trust to the public.

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In it, Steinberg declared that by inventing what he dubbed the «flatbed picture plane,» Rauschenberg derived a «pictorial surface that let the world in again» — a bold and profound claim from an art historian who had upon their emergence in the 1950s loudly decried the Combines.2 Implicitly contrasting Rauschenberg's achievement with the conventions of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, Steinberg claims for Rauschenberg not simply a great formal advancement, but one that forced a shift in the discourse of visual art to include once more the social world.
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