Sentences with phrase «archaic culture»

As the photograph reports it, the work suggests both a fluke of geology and traces of some archaic culture.

Every American leader with any sphere of influence in whatever walk of life should see the recent ABC television report by John Stossel entitled «Stupid in America», a scathing expose of the irrational perversity that is so deeply imbedded in the American public school system and the severe damage that this archaic culture and delivery -LSB-...]

Never, as modern human beings, can we experience the one - possibility consciousness of a primitive or archaic culture in which myth quite simply is the received construction of the world.

The transitions from primitive to archaic culture and from archaic culture to civilization were, of course, gradual.

The former, Eliade calls «man of the archaic cultures», «man of traditional civilizations», «primitive man», «man of premodern socities» etc..

Whereas primitive and archaic cultures required little specialization of functions and little work beyond that required to provide food, clothing, and shelter, civilization required a high degree of specialization and a great amount of disciplined labor directed to providing wealth for the community as a whole and for a small class within it.

Archaic cultures make greater degrees of differentiation possible among all of these categories, thus permitting greater clarity about the linearity of history, greater opportunities for calculated action with respect to the control of nature, and expanded opportunities for the development of rational law and the state.

By banning the figurative element from painting in favor of an abstract analysis of the «crisis of modern man» and also resorting to images from archaic cultures, artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko or Willem de Kooning shaped the Abstract Expressionist movement in the 1940s and 1950s.

Not exact matches

Their godly moralisms are but self - centered and self - censored upon redundant principles that are archaic in cultured relics, thsoe old fuddy duddues who fumble ever for their next glass worth of wine!

In terms of pushing past some of the archaic ways that keep the Gospel from being heard in today's culture... NP is dead on.

Their godly moralisms are but self - centered and self - censored upon redundant principles that are archaic in cultured relics, those old fuddy duddues who fumble ever for their next glass worth of wine!

This type of thinking «slut virgin wife» in the Christian community and sometimes secular culture is detrimental and archaic.

Peter L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy; Peter L. Berger, A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovering of the Supernatural (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1969); Mircea Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Reality (London: Harvill Press, 1960), 19; Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures, 107; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment, 156; Philip E. Slater, Microcosm: Structural, Pschological and Religious Evolution in Groups (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966).

He finds these forms in the «primitive» religions of archaic civilizations and preliterate cultures today as well as in the «higher» religions.

But then one may ask if these «elevated» meanings were not in some manner implied in the other meanings, and if, as a consequence, they were, if not plainly understood, at least vaguely felt by men living on archaic levels of culture.

For many years — perhaps since the Scopes trial in 1925 — the eastern secular and liberal Protestant establishments treated evangelical religion as though it were an archaic religious form, peculiarly persistent in some regions of the country, but not a significant factor in American culture.

In other words, symbols bound up with recent phases of culture are themselves constituted after the same manner as the most archaic symbols, that is, as the result of existential tensions and of ways of totally grasping the World.

In certain cases, archaic symbols linked with death, with sexuality, or with hope for an afterlife have been modified or even replaced, by similar symbols brought in by waves of superior cultures.

This is a rather archaic measure in a culture that has moved on.

The first settlers, Amerindian people from South or Central America known as the Lithic culture, were followed by two other waves — the Archaic and Ceramic, both from South America.

It is true that, for unknown reasons, Neandertal culture does not display all the refinements of the Cro - Magnons, but the same is true of many early modern humans and archaic forms of Homo sapiens.

The sting of some hasty jokes about the deaths of David Carradine and Michael Jackson is diluted and decades from now, this all will probably seem like a baffling window into archaic 2010s web culture.

Be inspired and motivated by hearing the Relentless Principal's thoughts on everything from school improvement and culture to disrupting current archaic education practices.

Known for its history and archaic structures, Greece is also home to an abundance of culture beyond its capital.

For centuries, Western art and culture have relied on principles of sacred geometry, on mysterious and archaic rules of proportion, maybe secretly.

Archaic bronze vessel, Gu, Shang Dynasty (1600 - 1050 BC)-- Anyang culture (1300 - 1050 BC)-- 12th — 11th Century BC Bronze with green patina, malachite encrustation, height 31 cm.

Using primarily industrial materials, the sculptural imagery is presented as a tableau combining references to «science fiction, speakers, ductwork, communications spectacle, antennae, the culture industry, archaic scientific apparati, disjecta membra, figures of hope, screens and building».

Chubarov considered himself a heir of the Russian «archaic» culture, drawing a parallel between his technique and the ideas of Malevich's «Black Square»: «In my plastic I am intuitively looking for proportions of relationship between black and white inherent to «Black Square», ratios of curvature of the surfaces and the absolute white, hanging of the structures, occlusions and sudden breakthroughs of white through the thrill of white and black matter.»