Sentences with phrase «from nihilism»

Their only escape from nihilism is work, cops and robbers alike.

From nihilism to optimism.

Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, said: «Once you've found a word or an image that connects atrocity with the rest of human experience, even in the most fragile or attenuated way, you've turned away from nihilism.»

The process worked incrementally and backward, not toward faith but away from nihilism, fueled by the rising conviction that the conclusion I had drawn long ago was wrong.

(Michael Novak's «Awakening from Nihilism» appeared in the August / September 1994 issue.)

Every atheist I've met insists on a logical distinction that separates atheism from nihilism, but no one has been able to effectively describe what this may be.

Not exact matches

The punks and slackers and devotees of hip - hop — rage, angst, nihilism, withdrawal — arose within the long stagnation that lasted from the early»70s to the early»90s.

Nihilism is the result of having so many compact discs from which to choose that, no matter which ones we choose, we are dissatisfied because we can not be sure we have chosen what we really wanted.

But they did not see that this nihilism stemmed from the Nazis» radical hatred of the Jews.

(M & M 54) And the plant that grows from these roots is moral and political nihilism, Polanyi's «emptiness of mere self - assertion».

Rejecting the moral nihilism that gave rise to the «barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind,» the Declaration affirms that we have obligations to one another arising from our participation in a common humanity and common moral order.

In this dark night of a century, a first fundamental lesson was drawn from the bowels of nihilism itself: Truth....

In a circumstance of real social crisis, however, the irrationalists might be isolated and prevented from spreading the poison of debonair nihilism throughout the culture, as they do at present.

But there is another, more uncomfortable assertion we should also be willing to make: that humanity could not have passed from the devotions of antiquity to those of modernity but for the force of Christianity in history, and so — as a matter of historical fact — Christianity, with its cry of «no other god,» is in part responsible for the nihilism of our culture.

Nihilism, says Heidegger, is born in a forgetfulness of the mystery of being, and in the attempt to capture and master being in artifacts of reason (the chief example — and indeed the prototype of every subsequent apostasy from true «ontology» — being Plato's ideas).

On the other hand, anyone who denies that there is a higher law seems to embrace nihilism, and therefore to leave the powerless unprotected from the whims of whoever controls the law - making apparatus.

From Walter Kaufmann... «Nietzsche himself has characterized the situation in which his philosophic thinking started by giving it the name of nihilism.

Thus the moral life receives from agape that which is essential to its integrity, the transcendant dimension in which the limits of our ethical justification can be confessed without our falling into nihilism and despair.

In fact, the school is home to a large, though shrinking, group of people who hold traditional Catholic beliefs on specific issues such as abortion and euthanasia, but who at the same time hold many beliefs about ethics that are indistinguishable from the subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism of secular America.

Every attempt to escape from mythology leads either to nihilism or to the question whether the invisible has in fact become visible, and if so, where?

From the surrounding European politics to the nihilism of the satirist, Karl Kraus and the early philosophical stirrings of the great Wittgenstein, the signs of the end of the age were all around.

In the closing pages of The Rebel, Camus asserts that nihilism and totalitarianism, those twin offspring of absolute freedom and absolute justice, flow from a deep disorder in Europe:

At the end of this story, we arrive at a nihilism that no longer hides itself from itself.

Wounds: Nihilism, sexual addiction (possibly springing from childhood sexual abuse), power struggles, jealousy and obsession, trouble leaving bad relationships

When Titan's increasing nihilism imperils Metro City it's Megamind who emerges to defend it completing his unlikely journey from villain to hero to finally superhero.

It's not just Prince's nihilism that Monáe embodies on Dirty Computer - she's also made a record that's overtly and proudly sexual, as evident from the opening verse of «Crazy, Classic, Life» - «Young, black, wild and free / Naked in a limousine / And I just wan na party hard / Sex in a swimming pool.»

Nevertheless there has been a discernible change in Leigh's work since his last dysfunctional - family opus, Life Is Sweet — a change well described by Australian critic Adrian Martin in a recent letter to me: «I think that as a certain angry anti-Thatcher 80s politics has drained from Leigh's work, he has gravitated to either the bombastic nihilism of Naked (a film I have incredibly mixed feelings about) or the soft - heartedness of Secrets and Lies.»

It's a film from whose nihilism I would've recoiled just a few years ago, but now I see that as perhaps the definitive trend of the first six years of this brave new world (first five after 9/11, the inciting event of this love affair with apocalyptic cultural reset) and not entirely divorced from our reality besides.

It's the most scabrous, uncompromised work from Billy Wilder, who never made a movie that wasn't kind of an asshole; and never made a movie that didn't reflect the essential nihilism of his worldview.

Ghost is very much a film of its time, just as the also - Rubin - scripted Jacob's Ladder, from the same year, pinged off the cultural climate in another real, essential way by predicting not the death of the Eighties, but the transformation of the aggressive Eisenhower delusions of Reagan's voodoo cowboy foreign policy into the «history will teach us nothing» nihilism of the fast - digitizing, Luddite, Born - Again Nineties.

All of these films reflected the anti-institutionalism and sometimes nihilism that had sprung from the tender political climate during the third year of the increasingly unpopular Iraq War, amongst other things.

Topped with tremendous performances by the cast, and masterful work from DP Matthew Libatique, production designer Philip Messina and the entire sound department, this provocative picture's nihilism wows.

The climactic shoot - out registers the nihilism of the gangsters» lives, but To distances himself from it, staging it in the time it takes a soda can to fall to the floor in slow motion; the viewer is encouraged to step back from the bloodshed and reflect on how rapidly everything can change.

But, in a world / industry where nihilism / post modern sensibilities rule, THE LONGEST RIDE is an anxiety free film that's a nice departure from reality.

Their black - humored deconstruction of the paternalistic WASP ideals, from which the Western and the American contemporary culture feed until today, undermines the audience expectations with relentless nihilism, caustic wit and famous actors...

And there was certainly a time, not so long ago, when I was also a fully paid - up McKeever Believer: his seriousness, his commitment to the act of painting, and the complete absence from his work of what the American painter Gary Stephan has dubbed «visual sarcasm» — that is, the use of paint only in order to flaunt its supposed inadequacy and redundancy — made him seem like a bulwark against the insufferable smart - alec nihilism of Richard Prince, Wade Guyton, or Christopher Wool; and against the prevailing attitudes within the Higher Education establishment at which I both teach, and study on the MA programme, where the buzz - phrase on the Fine Art Critical Studies syllabus is «post-Making»; in other words, goodbye and good riddance to all that messy business with brushes and squeegees and welding torches, once and for all.

They became thick, turbid all - over abstractions, painted directly from the tube or with a palette knife, embedded with sand and detritus, and imbued with existential titles like «Nihilism» and «Atonement.»

It seems symptomatic of a broader reorientation in the pop - cultural landscape of early»90s Britain, away from the plaid - shirt nihilism of Generation X, towards a confident levity and engagement with a more localized pop sensibility — a loss of interest in the US as locus of artistic innovation.

(moments of naming and identification); and From Reticence to Smart Anger, Nihilism to Hope and Back Again (social psychologies and styles in transition, or contradiction).

Her current show, Tired from Smiling at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town until 27 January, is an hymn to poetic nihilism and disillusionment.

With ten new installations, each of which echoes with the exhibition theme from a particular angle, the show incites a re-discussion about «Mono - ha», in search of innate supports for solving the present crisis, within the debris of nihilism.

Einarsson's paintings reflect iconic movements from the history of modernism, recalling the geometric vocabularies of artists such as Kasimir Malevich and Frank Stella, the pop - graphic derivations of Roy Lichtenstein, and the mannered nihilism of Steven Parrino.

«From the beginning we looked upon the term [Zero] not as an expression of nihilism — or as a dada - like gag, but as a word indicating a zone of silence and of pure possibilities for a new beginning as the count - down when rockets take off — ZERO is the incommensurable zone in which the old state turns into the new.»

We tumble from one continual social crisis to the next in a fog of capitalist nihilism, so to think that a Britain operating within its own private bureaucracies is to isolate from the political traumas surrounding us at a global scale is a grossly naive and selfish misconception.

Yet from this hopelessness, pop - nihilism, social resignation and a slow sardonic cancellation of the future is born.

The most radical thing an artist can do now, he claimed was «to paint with oils on canvas».2 A revival of painting by Collishaw and Hirst (who is included in Painting Now) indicates the significant cultural shift away from the gaudy consumerism and nihilism that artists of the 90s once championed.

Anything less than pure nihilism from a philosophic materialst is lazy thinking

Nihilism's formal severance from ethical considerations in turn leads ultimately to an acceptance or enactments of varying degrees of psychopathy / sociopathy and eventually to the collapse of civilization.

You can choose to lead the three protagonists through gripping story missions, explore a jam - packed world filled with a welcome sense of joyous nihilism, or even carry out elaborate heists with a little help from your friends in the game's wild multiplayer mode.

The first is that nihilistic prognoses for borderline personality disorder are not evidence based, 2 psychoanalytic day hospital treatment and cognitive behavioural treatment3 have support from randomised controlled trials, and therapeutic communities have systematic review support.4 Nihilism may have arisen because treatment needs commitment, a clear model, time to influence behaviours, and a longer time to affect depression.