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strained toward the future too impetuously and avidly to leave any
past behind us.... We lost the sense of the present.. . ." "As for
the future," Jakobson concluded somberly, "it doesn't belong to us
either." In one sense Mayakovsky's friend and most astute inter–
preter was right. The immediate future belonged not to the rebel–
lious artists but to the hard-faced political operatives who proved as
philistine as they were ruthless . Nevertheless, the creative elan
epitomized by the names of Mayakovsky and Khlebnikov, Malevich
and Larionov, Goncharova and Tatlin will remain one of the most
stirring moments in the history of the modernist imagination.
An
Interdisciplinary
Journal
ALASDAIR MACINTYRE
Philosophy, the "Other" Disciplines, and Their
Histories:
11.
Rejoinder to Richard Rorty
PETER
SCOTT
The Rediscovery of the Liberal University:
Popular Higher Education in a Post-Industrial
World
GEORGE
J.
GRAHAM,
JR.
The Role of the Humanities in Public Policy
Evaluation
DAYID W. NOBLE
Robert Bellah, Civil Religion, and theAmerican
Jeremiad
MICHAEL LIENESCH
The Paradoxical Politics ofthe Religious Right
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