Sentences with phrase «about totalitarianism»

He compares the writer - director to David Mamet and Harold Pinter; McDonagh says he's actively trying to get a production of The Pillowman, his 2003 Tony - winning drama about totalitarianism, set up with Rockwell playing the lead «either in New York, or London, or both.»

I suppose Judge Dedov, who attended a Soviet university in the 1980s, is in a position to know something about totalitarianism.

When George Orwell published a novel about totalitarianism in 1948, he arrived at its title by simply reversing the last two digits of that year, so that the date became 1984.

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His ban from visiting Britain in June 2009 has made him the «poster child» for free speech, not only for Americans concerned about the cultural shift towards totalitarianism and their rights to freedom of expression, but for people around the globe.

The Origins of Totalitarianism, a foundation stone of Arendt's reputation, is not a work about the origins of imperialism; it is about the origins of tTotalitarianism, a foundation stone of Arendt's reputation, is not a work about the origins of imperialism; it is about the origins of totalitarianismtotalitarianism.

Having known both of these scholars and having written about Talmon at some length, I must point out that Talmon wrote expressly on the French postrevolutionary and restorationist traditions and not about the later period that concerned The Origins of Totalitarianism.

It involves a common movement into a technological culture but it also entails correcting the inhumanities like State totalitarianism, increasing impoverishment and marginalisation of the majority of the people, destruction of the ecological basis of life and above all the general mechanization of human life already brought about by the misdirected technological advance.

The book is about the painful and confused transitions from Communist totalitarianism» pains and confusions that in different ways attend educational reform also in this country.

Those who think that thinking about the Cold War is old hat will not appreciate Revel's searing indictment of Western intellectuals who, had they had their way, would have sold out democracy to Communist totalitarianism.

Totalitarianism arises when a single individual or a minority group within the community presumes to speak and act for the entire membership without consulting the latter about their true interests and desires.

2 For people like Niebuhr, totalitarianism abroad and racism at home provided the most immediate context for thinking about the reforms that a progressive Christianity might bring to civilization.

Conservatives, for their part, suggest that the radicals» emphasis on justice rather than freedom conceals Marxist sympathies or at least a culpable naïveté about the evils of communist totalitarianism.

One of my concerns about capitalist triumphalism is that in rejecting socialist totalitarianism people may reject useful public enterprises of various kinds.

This novel still stands as a warning to us all about the dangers of totalitarianism.

Some of the critical comment about the film has been about how the comedy of political self - interest and backstabbing fits perfectly with the horror of totalitarianism and how one provides a relief valve for the other, but they actually don't sit side by side quite so comfortably.

At root, Isle of Dogs is a universal fable about the dangers of totalitarianism.

The original novel was a fairly direct critique on the effect of the 1917 Russian revolution and the major figures involved, and the game will go the same route with story - heavy farm management gameplay — like Harvest Moon if it were about the dangers of totalitarianism.

Totalitarianism is about how invasive government is, high taxes etc..

Also, I don't see dictatorship as being about the lack of voting, to me it's about the control of the state by an individual or small oligarchy; and totalitarianism is not about the invasiveness of the state, it's about total state control of the individuals actions.