Sentences with phrase «essentialist notion»

There is in some countries an even faster recourse to a rather essentialist notion of freedom of expression,» she added.

It had been twisted to reinforce essentialist notions.

But strategies of essentialism will always be short - term solutions that risk perpetuating essentialist notions.

This aloofness may be the point of the larger works; her more essentialist notions regarding process and presentation are stretched almost to a breaking point.

Not exact matches

In spite of the aspects of his thought that process philosophers and theologians can rightly appreciate, I shall contend (1) that a fundamental weakness of Hauerwas» thought is a view of the self that is unclear and lends itself to a «substantialist» interpretation; (2) that such a substantialist interpretation is further reinforced by an «essentialist» understanding of Christianity; and (3) that such an understanding culmninates in a separatist notion of the church - world relation.

No one wants to be identified by an essentialist and reductivist notion of identity, yet the placement of artists and their work in a historical context is relevant.