Sentences with phrase «as essentialism»

Darwin's destruction of the philosophical stance known as essentialism led science to reject racism.

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As Pius XII brings out St Thomas» philosophical synthesis does go significantly beyond such essentialism balancing it with a much needed existentialist emphasis upon «dynamic», even relational, being.

«Thomistic essentialism» - that old chestnut - as opposed to a «dynamic» vision of life, the universe and everything.

As to the former, orientation essentialism has made ethical philosophy in this realm all but impossible: It has displaced the old marital - procreative principles of chastity without offering any alternative that is not entirely arbitrary.

First of all, within orientation essentialism, the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality is a construct that is dishonest about its identity as a construct.

Johnson concludes that «there is probably a complex «biology of sexual orientation,» but there are alos developmental and psychological processes in earl childhood, as well as culturally bound determinants throughout life, that contribute to the way each individual experiences sexual orientation... Therefore, the question of «essentialism versus constructivism» (basically, nature vs. nurture) presents us with a false dichotomy.

Aside from the fact that, as I have just argued, Hauerwas is decidedly not interested in separation for separation's sake, this charge leaves me puzzling about just what «essentialism» could mean for Muray.

Later, God the Father takes on the form of a Native American wiseman (Graham Greene), and leads Mack on a New - Agey «healing trail to bring closure to [his] journey» — the most egregious example of racial essentialism in a film that takes shallow assumptions about foreign cultures as its starting point.

Such thinking leads to or supports things like far - right Hindu nationalism, for example, or absurd claims that epistemic violence is the same or worse (as Spivak once famously claimed) than actual violence, or harmful rejections of science, or the very essentialism denied by its proponents.

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However, I think Powell's essentialism is a good part of the reason why much of the right was actually rather weak on integration (as opposed to restricting immigration) as important to race relations across the 1960s and 1970s.

Essentialism is the tendency we have, as we move through and classify a complex world, to reduce others to a single descriptor («woman,» «black,» «immigrant»), thus making it easier to navigate that world.

Although the ignorant misapplication of evolutionary theory known as «Social Darwinism» often gets blamed for justifications of racism, adherence to the disproved essentialism preceding Darwin in fact can lead to the racist viewpoint.

As each period of innovation waned, it was usually replaced by a movement called «back to basics» or «essentialism» - or something else that suggested a backlash against failed fads.

Chapters cover topics such as intersectionality, white privilege, essentialism, heteronormativity, Christian privilege, and the myth of meritocracy.

Croak writes: «Early Modernism in painting, loosely defined as artwork seeking an essentialism constructed between the late 19th century up until WWII, was an intellectual adventure of the first order, having its manifestation in philosophy, poetry, sculpture, music and other forms of reflection.

Moving from art - school grad to accomplished young artist - his shows include Kavi Gupta gallery, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, a recent attention grabbing appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialism).

The show seeks to explore the breadth and heterogeneity of this noble color rather than function as a kind of essentialism or distillation.

Just as «strategic essentialism» was perverted by theorists, identity politics became co-opted by museums.

By 1993, in an interview with Ellen Rooney, Spivak had begun warning against «strategic essentialism» after witnessing its use not as a mobilizing slogan but as a master word, not as a means to an end (a strategy) but as itself justified.

Ezawa's approach is not so much an essentialism of these images through color as it is a process of evidentiary discovery.

It is this filial catastrophe, the fractures and abstract separation of parent and kin (however not rooted in Christian, woman - as - mother gender essentialism) that is explored in Trevor Shimizu's solo exhibition New Work at 47 Canal, running from June 24 to July 30.