The
scare quotes, alas, are necessary, for much of what is meant to have the effect of education winds up being decidedly uneducational, or educational in the wrong way.
"Czech Cubism, 1912-1916" at the Rupertinum, Salzburg. July 21-October 7, 2001
In this extract, Stove explains that the whole appearance of credibility of the Popperian position depended on little more than devious uses of
scare quotes, which were used to "sabotage logical expressions." Kimball also includes two deadly studies of, respectively, Popper and Feyerabend; Popper is drolly described as having ushered in the "Jazz Age" in the philosophy of science.
Against the Idols of the Age
The use of
scare quotes around terms is confusing and adds to the implicit debunking: does their use mean "so-called" (implying his own doubt of the term's accuracy, as on page 42: "his `primitive' style") or is it to indicate what he considers jargon (such as on the same page, "cultural capital", or page 60, "diversity"), or is he quoting some unnamed source?
High art down home: an economic ethnography of a local art market
The
scare quotes must be a sign of hypersensitivity because the region's economy was indeed rudimentary at the time.
Campanha Gaucha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920
Although DiGangi properly puts "sexual" in
scare quotes, the fact is, he must invoke it normatively in order to make the case that normative and uncontroversial same-sex relations, however inscrutable, do exist in the period.
The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama
This is a curiously antiquated, even defunct, mode of historical writing in which the word "authentic" appears without post-Taruskin
scare quotes or any reference to the authenticity debate (p.
Musica Poetica: Musical-Rhetorical Figures in German Baroque Music
The pages are littered with outrageous claims, statements, remarks,
scare quotes and innuendoes relating to (alleged) violations on the part of the RPF/RPA and the `military dictatorship' in Kigali.
L'Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 1996-97
But God, without the
scare quotes, means something to do - hospitality, for example.
Postmodernism and the desire for God: an e-mail exchange
They argue that there is no "objective knowledge" and no "facts," only personal interpretation, and that "reason" and "science" are no better than any other "myth," "narrative," or "magical explanation." (Using "irony" and "
scare quotes" to show that the writer questions the validity of certain terms seem to be de rigeur for postmodernists.) And if even science cannot claim any cross-cultural troths, then moral concepts must also be completely relative - no more than a matter of taste or tradition.
Truth and consequences: introduction
But accommodation, a trope of mediation between the human knower and the unknowable, is also one which invests with an aura of the fictive the divinely-authored discourses to which it is applied, making them fables as well as vehicles of - here one needs quotation marks or
scare quotes - of "truth." As a result, the attributes ascribed by God to himself are deprived of any distinct meaning, since they correspond neither to the incomprehensible divine reality nor to human realities (God's justice and human justice, to take one example, are said to be incommensurable).(104)
The dreamer's path: Descartes and the Sixteenth Century
On this basis, then, Kleinfelder rejects the obvious procedure of working through the drawings and prints in historical order, and instead elects to gather them into one Barthesian 'text' to be 'read' (her
scare quotes).
The Artist, His Model, Her Image, His Gaze: Picasso's Pursuit of the Model
Low turns his face against 'fashionably "materialistdh' critics (Low's
scare quotes) - Marxist, New Historicist, Post-modernist - who he feels allege that 'culture shapes people but people cannot shape culture' (9).
The Reinvention of Love: Poetry, Politics and Culture from Sidney to Milton
However, there is a further use for
scare quotes, and this is illustrated in the passage from Hannay himself that was quoted above.
Scare quoted "seeing." (Gilbert Ryle's descriptional theory of mental images)
When philosophers wish to emphasize that a term may be being used in some non-standard sense, they put double quotation marks about it -- what we call "
scare quotes." Of course, I believe it is also a convention that once the particular sense of a term is established in a given context, the
scare quotes may be deleted for subsequent uses of the term in tha context.
On the use of quotation marks
In the story that gives the collection its title, racial categories are consistently enclosed in
scare quotes, perhaps to point out their absurdity, their inaccuracy: "It's the year of 'the human being.' The year of race-creed-color blindness.
Breaking ground