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Erwin Dekker

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Next week I am giving a presentation about Frank Knight and theories of the individual (self) in Chicago at the History of Economics conference in Nice. For that purpose, I am revisiting all the archival material from Knight I collected las...

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Some entries in Chicago's urban dictionary

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Kenneth Burke, Dewey's rhetoric of science, and Hitler

Last week I already drew on the original Chicago rhetorician Kenneth Burke. His approach often labelled ‘dramatism,’ is an important inspiration to mid-century Chicago sociology, not in the least the work of Erving Goffman on the presentati...

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The dictator game and Chicago's theory of the self

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