Sentences with phrase «against modernity»

And then there are the details; like the gorgeous parquetry in the living quarters, the natural wooden cupboards in the kitchen juxtaposed against the modernity of the marble countertop, the light pouring in from the street - facing windows, and that lived - in feeling which emanates from the residence.

The base music of rap, hip - hop, shares quite a bit with disco, indeed grew directly out of it, and the identity / rebel / heroism focus of rap is a very specific one — rock rages in a broadly indistinct or middle - class mode, often against modernity, but rap's poetic world is «lumpen - proletarian,» and its archetypes and formulas are all about expressing certain notions of blackness and manliness.

But the real tragedy lies in the losing fight that he and others like him waged against a modernity increasingly deprived of spiritual foundations.

Indeed, it would be a subtle historical task to determine whether the language of community arose as a protest against modernity or whether the language of modernity arose as a protest against what were taken to be the Utopian impulses behind the language of community.

They are against the traditional society in some respects and also against modernity which has treated them badly.

It ended the church's self - destructive revolt against modernity and declared a truce not simply with the world, but also within itself.

And it has its most accurate analogue in the historical realization that we are not premoderns: we can not cease to be moderns by rebelling against modernity.

Suppose, however, that we were nonetheless to declare ourselves against modernity.

Not exact matches

Accordingly, as J. Bottum puts it («Christians and Postmoderns,» FT, February 1994), «postmodernity is still in the line of modernity, as rebellion against rebellion is still rebellion, as an attack on the constraints of grammar must still be written in grammatical sentences, as a skeptical argument against the structures of rationality must still be put rationally.»

It is to sound like the anti-humanistic enemy against whom modernity has campaigned for three hundred years.

• Catholic social doctrine from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI, Bernard Laurent relentlessly argues, is one of relentless «intransigence» against the Enlightenment, modernity, liberalism, and all their pomps and works.

Catholicism has long stood fiercely against the protections and rights offered by secular modernity, including women's equality, the freedom of sexual identity, respect for children's autonomy and reproductive choice.

I think he and people around him have a sense that the church's pendulum swung too far toward the firm reassertion of Catholic rules and vision of the Church as a bulwark against the turbulence of modernity and so on.

Speaking in cultural terms, M.M. Thomas argues that a «post-modern humanism which recognizes the integration of mechanical, organic and spiritual dimensions, can develop creative reinterpretation of traditions battling against fundamentalist traditionalism and actualize the potential modernity to create a dynamic fraternity of responsible persons and people».12

Even now when the limits of resources and problems of pollution have forced themselves on the attention of everyone, our inheritance from modernity counts heavily against an adequate response.

It runs full grain against the ethos of modernity and another legacy of the Enlightenment — human agency for the democratic transformation of society.

Against the whirl and blur of modernity we revel in what Niebuhr called «freedom from anxiety.»

Religious and ideological fundamentalism, then, appears within modernity (perhaps paradoxically) as a defense against these questions.

Faith guards against ideologies that are modernity's idolatries.

Modernity, with its enthronement of «progress through technology» is, however, the concrete economic, social, political, cultural, and ecclesial orders against which liberation theologies direct their intellectual and religious dialectics.

But they no longer make their chief role that of defending historic orthodoxy — especially Reformed scholasticism — against the «acids of modernity.»

It leaves us with local knowledge that is powerless against the continuing advance of the steamrollers of modernity.

Like Marx, Weber saw the heavy toll that the structures and values of modernity would continue to assess against the possibility of humanness.

It would be a mistake, however, to interpret Weber (against Marx) as a friend of modernity.

In developing his argument against this fallacy, Whitehead's philosophy moves away from modernity's logocentric assumptions of an underlying ontological reality to which linguistic expressions conform.

The economic and political battles against communism, by returning liberalism to its original course, certainly changed the direction of modernity.

Generally speaking, Catholic Christianity opposed modernity as a revolt against God and Protestant Christianity became a subjective spirituality of individualistic pietism.

In the nineteenth century people in the East, under the strong impact of the West and modernity, reacted against the West in several ways.

Whatever «postliberal» Christianity is, it has to face the realities not only of «modernity» but also of «postmodernity,» and it needs to define itself against a right flank as well as a left.

Blood and sacrifice were recurring themes, along with affirmation of the purity of nature, which needs to be guarded, and the vitality of life, which needs to be affirmed against the enervating, «cosmopolitan» powers of modernity.

The story of modernity is a story of Christian love's ongoing embodiment, and this often in spite of and against official Christian practice.

Without re-hashing the arguments for and against a wholly appointed chamber, those who seek change in the name of `' modernity» and so - called `' democracy» should take heed of the old Conservative maxim, «to change what is worst and conserve what is best».

He appealed more to discontented Labour voters, on public services, Iraq and civil liberties, than to Conservatives turning against their leader's claim to modernity.

It's a film about police corruption and partners learning to trust one another and the ways in which unbridled, excess masculinity can serve as a shield against the difficulties of modernity.

It was summarized starkly on the front cover of the publication as favoring «individuals» against «peoples,» the «mixed» against the «pure,» «modernity» against «authenticity,» «rights» against «traditions,» «contamination» against «preservation.»

These Land Rovers are almost three decades older than the Cayenne but have presence and modernity that compete against the Porsche as if each was designed yesterday.

Starting out in that fateful year for religion, 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews and the Muslims from Spain and opened virgin Christian missionary territory in America, Armstrong tells the story of fundamentalism in the world's great monotheisms and argues that it is as much a product of modernity as the materialism and empiricism against which it fearfully reacts.

Romantic and serene, with all the touches of modernity, each is appointed with mahogany furnishings and cool stone floors set against a palette of cream and ivory.

Romantic and serene, with all the touches of modernity, each is appointed with dark crown moldings, mahogany furnishings and cool stone floors set against a palette of soft cream and ivory.

They have little in common with the faceless modernity of Soviet architecture, apart from their felt isolation against backgrounds dark as an early morning sky.

Against a backdrop of traditional historicist styles, a new language of design emerged to define an era of innovation and modernity — the Jazz Age — capturing the pulse and rhythm of the American spirit.

If Arte Povera emerged as a critique of modernity's push for postwar, the work of these contemporary artists similarly bristles against the smooth, seemingly immaterial dissemination of capital, information, and images within our present global order.

Through his research, Bonsu focuses on questions of progress and the conception of modernity against the backdrop of social, cultural, and economical transformation in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Social modernity is the home of modernist art, even where that art rebels against it.»

The movement, which emerged from Brazil in the 1950s, was a rebellion against the certainty of sculptural art, an effort to transform sculpture into a more profound reflection of complex modernity.

That being said, it remains indisputably the case that the art and artists that defined modernity (an era that ended somewhere between 1970 and 1979) did follow a definite progression — the artists knew one another's work, considered themselves in competition with, or in reaction against, both their contemporaries and their predecessors, setting out in new directions accordingly.

TO the 21st century art expert, it is a masterpiece that acts as a «buttress against the pressures of modernity, mass production and global capitalism».

«Starling's pilgrimages... in their combination of lengthiness and needlessness, are a buttress against the compression of time and space characteristic of modernity and of global capitalism,» he said.

«Experiences of Modernity in the Greenhouse: A Cultural Analysis of a Physicist «Trio» Supporting the Conservative Backlash against Global Warming.»

The fairy story that climate scepticism is largely the creation of Jastrow, Nierenberg and Seitz originates from a 2008 paper by Myanna Lahsen called Experiences of modernity in the greenhouse: A cultural analysis of a physicist «trio» supporting the backlash against global warming.