Sentences with phrase «called essentialist»

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Furthermore, the analysis does not push toward an essentialist picture of the subject matter that is understood, because it does not require us even to mention anything called «the [essential] meaning» that must be grasped in any successful effort to understand a subject matter.

Muray's specific treatment of Hauerwas» work, while brief and somewhat sketchy, is pleasingly arranged around three points — what he calls Hauerwas» «tripod» — and three corresponding critical characterizations, namely that Hauerwas is a «substantialist» about the self, an «essentialist» about Christianity and a «separatist» about the Christian church.

It almost seems ridiculous to have to call Reinhardt an essentialist, as the drive to find an art that was essentially true and yet content-less was exactly what motivated him.