Sentences with phrase «against much contemporary»

This approach goes against much contemporary thinking about the efficacy of psychological therapies and the general trend which has suggested that specifically targeted psychotherapies are more effective.2

Not exact matches

But worse yet, not only does it distort the historical record, this criticism of Greek civilization also hides within itself a bad «faith resentment against the contemporary West, very much including its reverence for the critical intellect:

Kekes concludes Against Liberalism with a suggestion that what is worthwhile in liberalism might best be preserved by a conservative pluralism, one that recognized the incompatibility of human ends, the necessity of difficult trade - offs, and the existence of certain goods - among them, security, civility, and peace - not given much time of day by contemporary liberals.

However, although Hall is clearly sympathetic to much in the «gnostic sensibility» as thus characterized (cf. UP 336 - 46), and although, as we have seen, he regards modern technology as the manifestation of a tendency in Western thought and culture of which he is highly critical, he does not himself recommend «a revolt against contemporary forms of technology,» at least as that phrase would ordinarily be understood.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

There is this further point, one suspects much of the contemporary criticism of metaphysics ought to be directed, not at the inquiry into being, but against aspects of our inheritance from the Greek way of conceiving that inquiry.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Though it's an act of vandalism, graffiti is also regarded as an artistic style, as much a contemporary statement as the early Dadaists painting on urinals to make bold statements against World War I.

How much should it be pitted against its modern - day contemporaries?

Loudon sees the growing interest in such objects as a sign of the public's boredom with the inflated scale of so much contemporary art, «a reaction against Jeff Koons, if you will.

Lapthisophon contends that these process - driven drawings, made with such unconventional media as coffee grounds, bacon fat, smoke, latex, tea, vinegar, and rosemary, are «polemical» in how they go against the grain of much contemporary art.

These paintings are meant to be felt as much as seen, and Jensen correctly cautions against our contemporary bias toward the visual in painting.

Within the context of contemporary art history where there was so much critical bias against figuration I would have to agree that it was indeed heroic.

Has it crossed your mind to wonder why contemporary legends David Bowie and Madonna are still holding their own quite nicely against their much younger, hipper musical counterparts?