Sentences with phrase «bourgeois culture»

The literature of this culture has traditionally reflected more egalitarian relations between men and women, much less rigidity in male - female roles, and more respect for female intelligence and ingenuity than is found in bourgeois culture.

Karl Barth recognized that liberal theologians provide theological justification for Kulturprotestantismus, an establishment mentality eager to adjust Christianity to suit bourgeois culture.

is one of the main reasons why even in the socialist countries, the old bourgeois culture, greatly disguised and distorted but structurally intact, continues to hold sway.

Their attitude to time is completely opposed to that of bourgeois culture which aspires to possession, that is to extension in time, best of all, to eternity.

Play and fantasy were no longer to be seen simply as therapies for a rationalistic and hyperactivistic bourgeois culture; they were to become a new «root metaphor» for that culture (as Miller put it in Gods and Games [Harper & Row, 1971]-RRB-, the source of a future reality - principle for millions of moderns emancipated by affluence for a career of creative self - mastery.

There were good functional reasons why the rising bourgeoisie emphasized the virtues of frugality and literacy; it would be hard to detect a comparable functionality in the particular manners and canons of aesthetic taste that came to be associated with bourgeois culture.

I would also agree, up to a point, with its self - assessment as a liberating force against the overly repressive features of an earlier bourgeois culture..

With benefit of hindsight, Kiefer can see more clearly than they the dark side of Nietzsche's nihilistic exposd of the shallowness of hypocrisy, of 19th - century bourgeois culture — an exposed that seemed liberating indeed to the early expressionists.

Generally, it took outside authors to note that articulate «Negroes» like James Baldwin, Dick Gregory and James Foreman «do not share every value of white bourgeois culture,» and that black power must be seen as «a reaction to inaction» rather than «reverse racism or some ugly form of nationalism» (C. Lawson Crowe, November 4, 1964, and Margaret Halsey, December 28, 1966).

Despite Koons» infamous reputation for banality, Bigman reminds us that much of his work involves sophisticated critiques of the very bourgeois culture it purportedly celebrates.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise, Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah and half - hearted about the demand for single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

It often seems as if it were precisely because of their progressive potential that the media are felt to be an immense threatening power; because for the first time they present a basic challenge to bourgeois culture and thereby to the privileges of the bourgeois intelligentsia -.

He saw in petty - bourgeois culture a moral realism that recognized the cost and limits of human existence, reinforcing a healthy skepticism of progress.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise — Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah, and half - hearted about the demand for a single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

By strenuously insisting on the transcendence and integrity of the divine object, he tried to liberate theology from its bondage to philosophy, bourgeois culture and church tradition.

They remember that our own Western civilization has run so far through two main phases of development: the so - called «medieval» feudalist form of life (the last remnants of which are still effective in certain parts of our civilization, in the monarchic governments, for example) was superseded by the bourgeois culture, which has determined the so - called «modern» period of history and of which we are the heirs.

But it has now become clear to an ever increasing number of our contemporaries all over the world that this «profit system» of a «rugged individualism» must be replaced by an order which, without sacrificing the values and attainments of bourgeois culture, is impelled by a new cultural temper.

It starts off as a heist comedy but then becomes a class satire, with Allen playing a working - class criminal who longs for wealth but distrusts the bourgeois culture that comes with it.

In the politically radical 1960s and 1970s, it once again became fashionable to toll the death knell for painting, perceived as a product of bourgeois culture.

She has made them from plywood and a dismantled piano, noting that through art history — from Joseph Beuys to Nam June Paik — men have destroyed pianos, always as a final gesture putting an end to bourgeois culture.

Ransome draws on images from bourgeois culture of the nineteenth century, Western images of...

It might seem peculiar to be proposing that all of this, apocalypse too, be projected backward but in fact the conditions of bourgeois culture have not changed all that much in the past two hundred years.

Coupled with a sly sense of humor, he shrewdly claws at the grand pillars of bourgeois culture: art history, literature and philosophy.

Bourgeois culture was always a little too crude to be believed.

«Büttner has remarked that throughout art history — from Joseph Beuys to Nam June Paik — men have destroyed pianos to symbolize the death of bourgeois culture — a violent last gesture in the face of its end.