Sentences with phrase «histories as illusion»

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Here we see John Paul's sense of the importance of culture as the interpretive key to history and the exposure of what Weigel calls the Jacobin and Marxist fallacies» the illusions that history is driven by a quest for power and that history is the «exhaust fumes of impersonal economic forces.»

And just as families select artifacts that suggest past happiness in order to soften the blows inflicted by actions of family members in less happy times, congregational histories can create illusions: authors might relate in two sentences the experience of an unhappy pastorate that led to two decades of misery — and distort the whole story by dwelling on the beauty of the old sanctuary, hence suggesting general happiness.

A Christian view of time and history which preserves the truth and rejects the illusion in man's vision of history can organize and release human energies today as it did in the days of St. Augustine, and as it did in the bright days of the nineteenth century when the prospect of a reborn society on earth seemed to light the way.

This stance puts me in opposition to those humanists who regard religion as an illusion, who seek to negate the divine reality as the necessary precondition for affirming the humanist gospel of human freedom, and who interpret the history of religion as only an instrument of oppression and dehumanization.

Just as the time - process is a reality and not an illusion, just as historicity (Geschichtlichkeit), (We still do not know how far the idea of historicity, when rightly understood, is part of our common involvement in history.

In the exhibition's catalogue Bernice Rose states: «Chamberlain's is a radical step in this [modernism's] history: the translation of de Kooning's inherently sculptural continued... brushstroke from a soft material used for the creation of visual illusions and illusionary spaces into a hard, thin, and three - dimensional substance that could be considered as a support for those illusions.»

These images utilise diagnostic lenses and contrast dyes to reveal erased and unknown histories, and toggle the lines between presence and absence, as well as distortion and illusion.

And naturally the means of illusion, as well as the idea of a commentary on illusion, belong to a critical history of art.

In this new history, decoration, humor, femininity and masculinity, the everyday, sensual pleasure, artifice and illusion, and authorial control took center stage, as artists from the 1950s through the present explore the personal, social, and political meanings of sheer, gorgeous materiality.

In this new history, decoration, humor, femininity and masculinity, the everyday, sensual pleasure, artifice and illusion, and authorial control take center stage, as artists from the 1950s through the present explore the personal, social, and political meanings of sheer, gorgeous materiality.

Regarded as an environmental storyteller, he creates small Maine landscapes that are as much an allusion as illusion, referring to natural and human history in oblique ways.

Lee exposes «maleness» as complex and not necessarily inherent; the alpha male an amalgam of personal history and strategy; an essential illusion, a form of adaptation to our cultural environment.

Using everything from smoke and steel wool, to glass and chemicals, Quinlan manipulates her negatives, and subject matter, exploring feminist history, visual illusion and the photograph as object.

Kim's unique way of story - telling plunges visitors into a fantastical world of optical illusions and doubling of imagery that draws on a rich history of performance and film, as he collects and collages encounters, sounds, sculptures and images from his changing homes of Seoul, Amsterdam and New York.

Good history makes clear the complexity of events, breaks down the illusion of coherent «sides» such as science vs. anti-science, and a clear sequence of causally - related events (such as tobacco denial becoming climate skepticism).

I can envision a future college history / philosophy of science course with Mann's book and «The Hockey Stick Illusion» as prime texts.

However, I nixed that in favor of my second favorite passage: Ely's conclusion (also edited) where he promises that» [U.S. Dollars and Venezuelan Bolivars] and the like will quickly fade into financial history, just as tulipmania [and the German mark, the Argentinian peso and the Zimbabwean dollar] did, serving solely to remind future generations of the folly of gambling on illusions of value [like fiat currency].»