Sentences with phrase «essentialist thinking»

Art in all its forms allows the world in, and largely acts as a counter-argument to essentialist thinking.»

Not exact matches

However, for process - relational thought, any form of postmodernism based on substantialist and essentialist views is inadequate and counterproductive; its exploration of the motifs elaborated by Hauerwas would be considerably different and more adequate.

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.

In essence, we should happily join our voices to those of the poststructuralist queer theorists in their vigorous critiques of the naive orientation essentialists, who mistakenly think «straight» and «gay» are natural, neutral, and timeless classifications.

In most of the history of Western thought, tradition has been viewed in essentialist categories.

In fact, I think I have come up with a new handle that fits you far better: «The Essentialist Breeder.»

Thinking about abstraction's continued relevance may require me to at least mention Zombie Formalism, («Formalism because this art involves a straightforward, reductive, essentialist method of making a painting and Zombie because it brings back to life the discarded aesthetics of Clement Greenberg»), if only to suggest that the term, coined by artist - critic Walter Robinson, quoted in brackets above, seems to refer more to the market than to the art and may appear more pertinent in the USA than in the UK where alternative modernisms have sometimes held more sway than the version associated with Greenberg and Fried.