Sentences with phrase «dialectics at»

We encounter the same sort of dialectics at work in the Whitman series.

Not exact matches

This is, however, not at all to say that «dialectic» finds no place whatever in Whitehead's system.

With the definition of religion given, Marxism would have to be considered a religion, at least for those who do not use it as a means to some political or economic end, but who find «in the conception of the «dialectic of history» with its inevitability, its total relevance, its impersonal justice - making power, the object of supreme valuation and complete relevance to life....

Which means that at the beginning of the twenty - first century we are, if we would reconstitute the experiment, returned to the founding dialectic between contract and covenant.

By setting his, discussion in the context of a dialectic (externalization, objectification, internalization), he has in effect stressed the importance of social interaction for the production and maintenance of religion but at the same time he has recognized the independent capacity of religion to exist as a cultural system and to shape individual thoughts and attitudes.

Thus is posed in radical terms the question of the real causality of our freedom, the very same freedom which the Practical Reason postulated at the end of its Dialectic.

At the same time I find that he has adopted a rigid dialectic that forces reality into patterns to which it does not correspond.

We have to go forward to a post-modern humanism that takes the dialectics of the human spirit at work in human creativity and destructivity more seriously.

Their use of dialectic, says Altizer, was limited to an attack on secular expressions of faith, and thus it could not offer any new vision of the sacred.1 For Altizer, any dialectical method that is not fully dialectical is not dialectical at all.

Through courtship and flirtation, inspiration and seduction, a new dialectic is introduced into the dance: approval, admiration, and regard require keeping lovers apart at the beholding distance, yet the original sexual instinct drives toward fusion.

It first proposes the dialectic of its object, which is an event as well as a meaning at the same time, similar to what we spoke of in part one with regard to the narration of the founding events of the history of Israel.

Even at this present, pre-apocalyptic stage of Altizer's Incarnational dialectic it is difficult to see how Altizer has avoided the charge he seeks to offset.

There is as well, however, a tension between narration and prophecy that first occurs at the level of the event in the dialectic of the prophetic event.

The prospects are favorable, at points in Mircea Eliade and the Dialectic of the Sacred, for an avoidance of Brown's regressive direction.

At the heart of Hampson's misreading is her reduction of Lutheranism to a dialectic between two ways of understanding the relation between self and God.

The product of Updike's natural religion is his conviction that God is discovered, if at all, in the irresolvable dialectic of human existence.

Rabbit's gradual spiritual advance is the product of Updike's natural religion: his conviction that God is discovered, if at all, in the irresolvable dialectic of human existence.

What this body of scholarship makes clear, he emphasizes, is that «the halakhah has a history that reveals the dialectic of continuity and change at every point.»

In the same context Marx reminds us: «The mystifying side of Hegelian dialectic I criticized nearly thirty years ago, at a time when it was still the fashion.

The death of God, only hinted at in the seventeenth century, is the breakdown of the dialectic between the presence and absence.

Luther's use of dialectic («man is totally free... man is absolutely bound») to reach the existential affirmation that it was only through grace that man could take the smallest step at all towards anything spiritually good, enunciated with Luther's dogmatism, seemed to be an attack on the whole civilised Christian tradition of good letters: devoted, refined and peaceful.

At Erfurt the Occamists gave Martin a confidence in logical processes and the use of argument and dialectic which never left him, however much he thundered against it as a way to religious faith.

Instead of relying on scientific arguments for the rationalization of the Buddhist experience they are at present trying to resort to its own dialectics.»

So here — about two miles from the death and destruction of Sept. 11, in a town where each morning 40,000 men and women boarded the ferry and the PATH train to go to work at the World Trade Center — played out one of the central dialectics of the tragedy's aftermath: To play or not to play?

Maria holds a PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience, and has formerly worked as a science policy researcher at the Council of Canadian Academies, as a consultant with Dialectic Solutions, and as a course instructor at the University of Guelph.

Then again at a certain point people simply talk past each other and no rational dialectic can be entered into.

The story has Joe, a Looper played by Joseph Gordon - Levitt, confronting and confronted by his older self, played by Bruce Willis in a action - packed dialectic about more than doing the right thing at the right time and then living with the consequences.

Another Country (Molly Reynolds, 2015), seen at CinefestOz Busselton in August The dialectic of the edit like Vertov.

The dialectic between the new and the old, the present and the future, remains at the heart of the plot.

Starting with Pop Art, and its antecedents, most American art showcased at the Whitney Museum are works with literal content that address only one side of the so - called critical, intellectual dialectic.

The dialectic nature of becoming and decaying, appearing and disappearing points in both directions at the same time: the past and the future, a framework that mirrors the entire inaugural exhibition with its promise of an auspicious future while digging through the past.

«An image may be charged with cultural or symbolic meaning and completely devoid of such meaning at the same time, and this dialectic is fundamental to my work,» says Geva.

But there are surely echoes and affinities between the writing and thinking promoted by Alfred H. Barr Jr. at the Museum of Modern Art, by Albert Gallatin with the publications of his Gallery of Living Art at New York University, by Duncan Phillips through the Phillips Collection and books such as his 1937 The Leadership of Giorgione, and by John Graham (who exhibited at the Phillips Collection) with his eccentric underground classic, System and Dialectics of Art.

The idea is that negation implies difference — a point important to both Marxist dialectic and to Structuralist criticism at its best.

«The entire dialectic of modernist painting from Manet to present is at play in Stella's work.»

The Korea Society's current exhibition of Korean ceramics presents the work of eight living artists through such a familiar opposition, implying that the dialectic between ancient practices and demands for innovation is at the core of contemporary ceramic art's concerns.

Oraib Toukan's first solo exhibition, at the Jordanian arts foundation Darat al - Funun, delved into a dialectic between memory and amnesia that has become almost overbearing in contemporary art practice from the Arab world.

To emphasize the dialectic between beauty and fear and the vastness of the Pacific, where day and night occur simultaneously at different geographic points, Chandra + Stewart use the metaphor of the negative, or inversion.

Pistoletto, Gilardi, Fabro, Pascali and Paolini, in various ways, confuse the presentation of materials with the representation of images, and in their cases at least, the Pop and Povera dialectic breaks down.

At the center of the works by 24 international artists shown in the Kunstverein was the observation that artistic preparatory designs since the nineteen eighties are less concerned with the classical dialectic between surface and content, but rather with the textualization, visualization of the surface itself.more

While Hong Hao continues to work with found objects,» AS IT IS,» his recent solo exhibition at Beijing Commune, deals with the physical forms in a more straightforward manner, creating an interesting dialectic development of both the vocabulary and concept of his art.

Rest of the world: 140 Caracteres at MAM, São Paulo; New Abstraction: Chapter 1, at Hadrien de Montferrand, Beijing Books: The Ringtone Dialectic, by Sumanth Gopinath; Unposted Letters, by Franciska Themerson & Stephan Themerson; Visual Cultures as Seriousness, by Gavin Butt and Irit Rogoff; A Philosophy of Walking, by Frédéric Gros.

Installed at Jones Center, with one Jim Lambie sculpture at Laguna Gloria, this group show addresses what senior curator Heather Pesanti describes as the «layers of meaning embedded in representations of the human form and the complex relationship between the dialectics of the viewer and the object.»

Through his avowed inability to remember, Mike Kelley ultimately implicates a Benjaminian dialectic: that there is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

Working across video, writing, installation and other new media, the interdisciplinary artist explores «dialectics formalized in Black radicalism and organized labor into a context of networked virtual life» and seeks to reveal dynamics at play and embedded in technology and contemporary culture.

Santoro has been focused on the book for the entirety of 2013, with the exception of a large - scale solo show and series of «dialectic revival» discussions at Gasser - Grunert in New York City.

The film was first shown in Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States, curated by Ana Mendieta at A.I.R. Gallery in 1980.

Installation view of Howardena Pindell's Free, White and 21, 1980, in Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States at A.I.R. Gallery (September 2 — 20, 1980).

Each of his works brought together here is an oxymoron, the outcome of a dialectic between spontaneity and control, what the artist called the «continual correction of what is done at speed.»

The publication will also include an essay on Kelly's singular contribution to the modernist dialectic by Benjamin Buchloh, professor of Art History at Barnard College.