Despite this disavowal and thoughtful negotiation
of essentialism by figures like Spivak, Gonzalez - Torres, and Piper, identity politics has been retooled recently by a younger generation of artists and curators.
The Australian public ethics professor Clive Hamilton has proposed another line of defense named «
strategic essentialism» — stating that the science is indisputable for strategic reasons.
Greg McKeown's
book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less is a wonderful deep dive into the art of saying no by pursuing less.
The 4 - Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau The Suitcase Entrepreneur by Natalie Sisson Virtual Freedom by Chris Ducker Escape from Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim Be a Free - Range Human by Marianne Cantwell Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
Essentialism by Greg McKeown The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie Life After College by Jenny Blake
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
Most of our historic creeds are expressed in the philosophical categories of
Greek essentialism, which are static.
In Aristotle, the form is the purest, most fundamental act; but Aristotle is not to be automatically equated with Thomas, who held that the act of Being is more primordial than that of the form, a distinction which preserves his metaphysics from the pitfalls of
Aristotelian essentialism.
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.
It is also an example of
cultural essentialism, which hinders our ability to have a serious debate about urgent topics like racism, injustice, poverty and oppression that affects primarily, though not solely, African Americans in the U.S..
Revisit the discussion of
essentialism with regard to Wade Horn and the Silverstein / Auerbach controversy.
Essentialism cuts to the core of what is truly important in all aspects of life, from personal to professional, and provides tangible tools that will help you think about how you spend your time and energy.
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.
What all these modern schools of thought have in common is rejection of the previously dominant Greco -
scholastic essentialism in ontology and epistemology.
Their existence is obscured by
essentialism because the radical uniqueness of existence is not recognized.
While both philosophies embrace this
qualified essentialism, it is Whitehead that provides the necessary corrective on the problem of relations.
In each instance it would indulge an
inappropriate essentialism to insist on having a single definite monolithic core doctrinal position.
One of the big questions in gender studies is the idea of
essentialism vs. constructivism — which basically is related to the idea of whether someone is, as you say, really gay.
Lead Judge David Luttenberger, CPP, Global Packaging director for the Mintel Group,
cited essentialism: «That's giving consumers enough on - pack information to make an informed, enlightened purchasing decision while not overwhelming their shopping experience.»
As to the «politics of identity» owned or developed as some sort of USP, that would be disastrous, a retreat
into essentialism.
Darwin's destruction of the philosophical stance known
as essentialism led science to reject racism.
A triangle
illustrates essentialism: all triangles have the same fundamental characteristics and are sharply delimited against quadrangles or any other geometric figures.
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.
An overestimate of the predictive value of genetic information emanates from
genetic essentialism, the belief that genes are wholly predictive of diseases, behaviors, or traits [93].
Critics of the word mansplaining highlight the problems inherent in its usage
including essentialism, double standard and at times a reductive approach to discussion, falling into ad hominem territory.
Regarding the former, «Alma Thomas» worried that The Guerrilla Girls Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art «was so embedded in that second - wave feminist and even
pre-second-wave essentialism» that it fulfilled some assumption that all women artists are feminist artists.
«Alma Thomas» describes this grey - area that the Guerrilla Girls occupied as «universalist feminism,» bordering
on essentialism.
If the digital medium is
forcing essentialism, then projects like Huxtable's are wise to retool it while remaining wary and prepared to combat the risks that this entails.
The beginning of the modernist adventure, circa 1890s, held that this was a new
found essentialism; the end of the modernist adventure, circa 1968, maintained that it was just another style.
It is to
use essentialism, rather than to believe in it; it is a strategy, not an ideal.
«God is Dead» is a series refuting my prior aspirations to
modernist essentialism; choosing instead to celebrate material reality.
«A multi-media innovator - a pioneer who anticipated all kinds of performance and conceptual art pieces which, every so often, achieve a kind of
poetic essentialism that is genuinely eyepopping and often moving» - Simon Schama