Sentences with phrase «called modern discourse»

«One theme that I keep encountering in SR sessions,» he says, «is the idea that there's something called modern discourse, which operates according to rigid rules dictated by secular liberalism.

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The question is whether this suspension or abolition of a referential function of the first degree is not the negative condition for the liberating of a more primitive, more originary referential function, which may be called a second order reference only because discourse whose function is descriptive has usurped the first rank in daily life and has been supported in this regard by modern science.

A late chapter comparing Voegelin's work with the Catholic theology of Bernard Lonergan - whose ambitions in responding to the modern crisis matched Voegelin's and whose work, like his, takes its stand on a foundational account of consciousness - helps Morrissey to bring Voegelin's thought into what he calls a «theological community of discourse» and sharpens his final chapter's presentation of Voegelin's «reconstruction» of Christian theology.

Particularly valuable in part two were the chapters on the persistence of teleology in biological discourse despite its political incorrectness, and the insights into reality being multi-layered (e.g. microscopic and macroscopic; chemical and biological), requiring different sciences to have different methods, and calling for a renewal of metaphysics to incorporate the insights of modern science.

But the term «postmodernism» became current outside this general discourse, within artistic and literary criticism, and in this other more specialized discourse, the «modernism» to which «post -» was prefixed has meant the sensibility that emerged in the arts around the turn of the present century, in deliberate rejection of the world shaped by Enlightenment and Romanticism, i.e., of the world otherwise called «modern.»