Sentences with word «facticity»

He considers Wright's arguments for the historical facticity of Jesus's resurrection to be unconvincing and Paul Johnson's work to be contradictory.

There is, admittedly, something heretical in minimizing the importance of the historical facticity of the foundation on which the Christian community stands.

Against the background of forms as possibilities Whitehead achieves a new concept of facticity as that of the act of a «decision» among possibilities.

A possible reminder of Jasper Johns's or Sylvia Plimack Mangold's use of the literal within a play of illusion, it accentuates material facticity.

Personal meaning is bound up with biological facticity - an integralist view of the person as opposed to a separatist view.

I find it equally difficult to obtain comfort for those children of history who are old enough to find themselves the victims of violence, imposed either from without by the cruelty of empires, or from within by the brute facticity of illness.

The latter are often presented «as straightforward narratives of events,» as modern interpreters often find «exclusively non-physical spiritual significance in these accounts» and even engage in allegory while leaving historical questions of facticity at the margins.

Rather, the problem is that of sheer knowledge, of how to accede linguistically to the aesthetic value in the sheer relationality and facticity before one's eyes.20 To regard such a poem as a proposition is to make it a banality; and for the Western, scientifically - minded, academic intellectual that is no trick at all.

If on that hard, irrecoverable ground of facticity somewhere underlying the story, the historical Elijah heard such a marvelously creative, whimsical outburst from the historical Obadiah, then Elijah must have laughed aloud before he reassured Obadiah with an oath that he would by God face the king that day!

In our own time, the dominance of facticity characteristic of a technological age has tended to submerge the normal channels of emotional life, often producing abnormal and unhealthy emotionalism when they do surface.

It lies in the realm of mere facticity, which is a mixture of accident and necessity.

For the same reason that all the «proofs» for the existence of God that are based on the design or the very facticity of the world must fail, so also must all «proofs» on the basis of «miracle» fail.

Their experimental mode of production, use of alternative materials and visceral facticity align the artist with other European and American painters working in this decade such as Alberto Burri, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Cy Twombly, Jay DeFeo and Hassel Smith.

Any one material means something: glass is vulnerable, the photograph has a reputation for facticity, resin has something to do with history, and so on.

Corwin begins: «Surface and the illusion of surface are the heart of the matter in the work of two abstract painters whose recent exhibitions in Brooklyn dangle the mystery of process and the indisputable facticity of material before the viewer.

Maltz's architectural - scale site interventions don't often migrate intact to the «white cube,» but his current exhibition at Minus Space, Painted / Stacked / Suspended (on view through October 28), demonstrates the artist's insistence on facticity over illusion: «It is clear to me that paint is a material that is applied to another material.»

These immediate objects have both everything and nothing to do with anything at all but the continuous unfolding arc of their constituent facticity.

In both cases, individuals must become more proactive in their attempts to avoid a wholly nihilistic interpretation of their own facticity: in other words, individuals have to relearn to take charge of themselves, so as to avoid degenerating into complete physical and intellectual dependency on the society around them.

(We are not concerned here with questions of the historical facticity of the ancestor narratives in the Bible.

But what counts is probably not so much the facticity of the miracle as the signification Naaman perceives in it.

One watches with interest to see whether the weight of facticity will change the media's coverage of AIDS as a plague that puts everybody at risk.

Our own age, committed as it is to facticity and to the literal sequences of printed words can easily forget its indebtedness to imagination.

But the stronger the rational proof of revelation's facticity, the less room was left for freedom and grace.

It is more than a bare statement of our facticity.

If the chief concern is that of defending the facticity of revelation (usually too narrowly defined), then the content and significance of revelation remain unexplored.

Were the progressive to deny the facticity of gender she would undermine the transgendered person's claim to possessing an accurate perception of their true identity and vitiate their appeal to reparation.

For the phrase «irresistible datum» is in apposition to the word «lure»; this suggests to me that we should not make too much of the word «irresistible»; moreover, every datum is irresistible for later occasions in its facticity, though not in the use which they make of it.

The latest study is one in a series of papers Berinsky has published on political rumors, facticity, and partisan beliefs.

About the Artists Jonathan Allen (London, England) is an artist and writer whose work addresses the figuring of agency, the facticity of the image, and most recently the various magics at play within late modernity.

8:45, 9:15 pm Floor Six Meredith Mowder discusses Green Screen # 7 by Liz Deschenes, Red Alert by Hito Steyerl, and The Production of an Unevenly Distributed Surplus Results from the Facticity of Format and Ground by Cheyney Thompson in Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner.

For Twombly, however, the facticity of paint seems almost incidental, and so do the lofty aspirations of formalists and metaphysicians.

«The Production of an Unevenly Distributed Surplus Results from the Facticity of Format and Ground», 2006 oil on canvas 215 x 183,5 cm

Thompson «s allegorical movement from forms of social propriety to figures of aesthetic obsolescence is inverted in his large format painting «The Production of an Unevenly Distributed Surplus Results from the Facticity of Format and Ground».

Playing with photography's slippery identity between the real and the illusory, Ulay applies a constructive framework to (re) present his photographs which, at once, bear the facticity and transcend life.

In other words, Mosset's work doesn't rely upon any historical dialectic of the ontological narrative and its attendant «facticity,» so much as it calls forth a direct encounter with the materiality of being sans the argument of the fact.

Using Jean - Paul Sartre's existential phenomenology, we teach you to invite clients to explore the twin poles of human existence: freedom and facticity (the circumstances of our lives) as these impact our relationships and ourselves.