Sentences with phrase «history fodder»

Darwin, from a Lockean view, turns individuals into species fodder, and History turns persons into «History fodder.»

That's different from what might be called Progressive nominalism; words are weapons to advance History, because particular people are nothing but Historical products and History fodder.

The End of History in the strong or revolutionary sense was discredited by the Marxist tyrannies that turned people into history fodder and nothing more.

People know that that they're more than History fodder and more than autonomous or radically displaced individuals.

They refuse to be history fodder, of course.

Not exact matches

Recent American history affords plenty of fodder for Edward Gibbon wannabes.

So our nonfoundationism is a decision against the progressive devotion to History; the point of life is to keep the people around right now as alive, free, and comfortable as possible, not to use them as fodder for some glorious future.

The cannon fodder of Europe... The worst team in European history..

Rostov arrive at Old Trafford as unfancied Europa League fodder for Manchester United, but coach Ivan Daniliants is confident of confounding the doubters and making history.

She makes a case for the importance of dreaming and equips readers with the reflective fodder to identify their dreams and bring them to fruition via elegant prose, insightful questions, community - driven stories, and Johnson's own intriguing personal history.

There has never been a time in recorded history when our U.S. president has been better fodder for a cartoon series, for better or worse (worse).

Comic books have a long history of using contemporary world affairs as fodder for their plots, but Batman v Superman utilizes them in a dark, uncomfortable way that precludes entertainment.

It looked like it might be history lesson — interesting in a stodgy, bookish way, but not exactly big screen fodder.

If they have nothing to say to any of us about understanding what it means to be fully human and more fully ourselves, if they have nothing to tell us about the human experience as it has unspooled throughout human history, if they have nothing to say about the power of language to communicate across the gaps that separate us, if they have nothing to say about culture, if they have nothing to say about the rich heritage of the English language, if they have nothing to say about understanding the universal and the specific in human life, about how to grow beyond our own immediate experience — if they are, in fact, nothing more than fodder for test prep, then what the hell are we doing?

EIIB is basically a liquid / low - risk investment company, with a poor operational & share price history to date and a (fairly) disaffected shareholder base — classic fodder for these activists.

Rebels Artists Fuel Establishment Riches — Souren Melikian points out the irony that «art produced... by young rebels who challenged the establishment,» such as Basquiat, Pollock, and Lichtenstein, was the fodder for the biggest sale in history, with the proceeds going to far - from - anti-estabishment pockets.

Women entering the profession must realize their progress could be impeded by factors they don't even realize exist or thought were fodder for history books.

Then, use these core requirements as fodder to brainstorm relevant stories from your work history to demonstrate your abilities.