dialectic

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Through an artistic probing of form, perhaps reflective of his ancestors’ Talmudic dialectic, he questioned traditional pieties and challenged an existing order.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

How did you create the narrative since you imagined this as a dialectic film?

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024

“This year’s recipients reflect the inevitable dialectic between individual creativity and community in the life of the arts.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023

But it’s in “The Guest Lecture,” his second novel, that the dialectic between fantasy and figures, consciousness and bodies, takes its most affecting form.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023

Zeno put it like this: “Rhetoric is an open palm; dialectic a closed fist.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith