Sentences with phrase «history of modernity»

This volume also publishes Stuart Hall's keynote address to the Tate Gallery's «Museums of Modern Art and the End of History» conference, in which he proposes the history of modernity and modernism to be a series of «cultural translations», rather than being firmly enshrined in the Western canon.

His works allude to iconic works from the history of modernity, while addressing questions ranging from the jolts of contemporary society and the fall of utopias to the impact of new technologies on our visual culture, by way of the fetishization of cartoons and the relationship of civil society to different forms of power.

Essays by curator Lisa Baldissera and New York art critic, poet and editor Barry Schwabsky examine contemporary art and the unique history of modernity in Saskatchewan and internationally.

Warburg's 1923 lecture, first published in German in 1988 and now available for the first time in English translation, Michael Steinberg offers offers at once a window on his career, a formative statement of his cultural history of modernity, and a document in the ethnography of the American Southwest.

By my reading, the history of modernity should be understood in terms of the practical loss of love rather than doctrinal confusion.

The history of modernity in the West is in many ways nothing more than the effort to destroy medieval faith.

Drawing on disparate historical forms from theater and television to Playboy magazine, Gerard Byrne often works with actors to make video works that reconstruct conversations, interviews, and discussions from the recent past, with particular reference to histories of Modernity, and Counter-Culture.

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The critique of modernity offers the possibility of reclaiming the long history of belief, the possibility of critically reading medieval authors without supposing them to be involved in the attempt to master God.

• Reviewing Philip Gleason's excellent history of Catholic higher education, Contending with Modernity, our premier evangelical church historian, Mark Noll of Wheaton, says Gleason's argument has much wider application.

To grow up in Canada is to inherit a privileged position for understanding modernity» sufficently distant from that hurtling spaceship of «the republic to our south,» while retaining (perhaps from connections to nature, to the history of France, and to Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.»

Portier's sympathetic treatment of the struggles of Denis J. O'Connell, John R. Slattery, William L. Sullivan, and Joseph McSorley to find a path for Catholicism in modernity illuminate a lot of history that has been in the shadows — and which, brought to light, teaches important lessons for today.

We might note the obvious influence of Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History upon Bénéton's framing of modernity, but he works out the implications of historicist relativism and Weberian social science in ways that are more attuned to both the contemporary academy and to our day - to - day lives.

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

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.

For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it alone, in the history of the West, was a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting façade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

The word «nihilism» has a complex history in modern philosophy, but I use it in a sense largely determined by Nietzsche and Heidegger, both of whom not only diagnosed modernity as nihilism, but saw Christianity as complicit in its genesis; both it seems to me were penetratingly correct in some respects, if disastrously wrong in most, and both raised questions that we Christians ignore at our peril.

One can certainly detect, for instance, a growing skepticism toward «modernity» in the form of master narratives and instrumental reason, possibly because Latin America has so often had a painful experience of these narratives and the exercise of such reason — experiencing them from the «reverse side of history,» to use Gutiérrez's apt phrase.

By this I simply mean that we live during the period of modernity — that period of Western cultural history that began with the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continues into the present.

Thus new ideologies of the Future and of being a chosen people and commitment to a mission in world history to bring about that future, taking sides and fighting to determine the world's future in one's own terms, have become essential expressions of the spirit of modernity.

Therefore while the criticism of modernity with respect to its idea of history is valid, the answer has to emphasize the fulfillment of the meaning of history in suffering service, solidarity with the poor and forgiving love.

The spiritual vision of modernity as we know it in ideology and practice has emphasized three aspects of realty, namely progress through differentiation and autonomy of individuality; the concept of the world as history moving towards the Future through the creativity of human rationality; and the ethos of secularism as the basis of social ordering.

I have a degree in World Religions and the History of Science and a postgraduate degree in Representation and Modernity.

As you say you have a degree in World Religions and the History of Science and a postgraduate degree in Representation and Modernity ---------- I just have an associates degree in Church leadership ------ so you misunderstand my lack of education and my ablities to present my views clearly, compared to your abilities, as patronizing -------------- No TIGGY, what I just said THAT IS PATRONIZING you.

YOU: Fishon, I do not get stuff from a book — I have a degree in World Religions and the History of Science and a postgraduate degree in Representation and Modernity.

I may have a slightly silly name, but I have a degree in World Religions and the History of Science and a postgraduate degree in Representation and Modernity.

Since, however, his interpretation set God's power, and will in the very center of history, and since he saw secular empires as stumbling inexorably through sin, rather than as representing progressive steps toward modernity, he was regarded until the mid-20th century as too archaic to be of help.

And there is good reason for this, apocalypticism is inevitably subversive, and perhaps the most purely subversive force in history, all of the great political revolutions in modernity have been apocalyptic revolutions, and even the advent of both Christianity and Islam can be understood as the consequence of apocalypticism.

In the face of the spiritual poverty of liberal modernity, Dugin places his hopes in Dasein, which takes the form of the arresting, animating forces that arise from below: desire, instinct, ethnos, or history's consolidated remains.

But modernity, like other periods of history, is ambiguous.

The Rise of the Technocratic Society New York June 24 A discussion on the history of contemporary Western culture with Dr. Michael Hanby, professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science, John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of America and Dr. Carlo Lancellotti, Professor of Mathematics, CUNY, editor and translator of The Crisis of Modernity by Augusto Del Noce.

1): The Irony of It All: 1893 - 1919 (University of Chicago Press, 385 pp., $ 24.95) In this first volume of a projected four - volume history of American religion in the 20th century (the legend has already arisen that the last volume will be completed on the day he retires), Marty looks at the impact of modernity on a breathtaking variety of American religious groups and individuals.

Reviving the vision of the Greek Fathers it saw Jesus Christ as the recapitulation of the whole of history, but it did not offer much specific development of philosophy or theology to underpin a new apologetic able to inform a fruitful dialogue with modernity and a new call to faith.

Failing to see the council's place in the whole modern history of the Church, they try to unlearn a still harder and more basic lesson about the Church's relationship with the world, one that long antedates Catholicism's journey through modernity.

This discovery is a product of our modernity in the sense that it expresses the backlash of the critical disciplines — philology and history — on the sacred texts.

What happens when we go deeper is that we see that globalization is part of a larger and broader concept of postmodernity — as an emergence from modernity into an as yet defined era in history in which a distinctive rationality of plurality and fallibilism sets in.

For him, the Bible's story of the world's history and destiny is a narrative fiction that has lost its credibility and usefulness in late modernity.

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Between them the Christian understanding of human being and society as created, fallen and redeemed by God was made irrelevant so that these forces of modernity were left to be interpreted solely within the framework of the humanism of the Enlightenment which at best had a Deistic faith coupled with a mechanical view of the world and a self - redemptive idea of history making for an optimistic doctrine of inevitable progress.

This is the intellectual history that leads to modernity's view of a clash between faith and reason.

The Yale philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff provides a critical history of the nature and purpose of art in modernity and suggestions for a theory of art today that could admit both its fallenness and its potency to engender some kind of salvation, and a piece by Daniel Taylor describes the abandoned Irish monastery of Skellig Michael that might make some readers want to plan a pilgrimage to this holy and - to?

Such a read of the history of slavery obscures its long, slow death in medieval Western Christendom and the dramatic revival of the institution in the service of the signature economic achievement of liberal modernity, the capitalist world market.

«It is,» says Steiner, «this break of the covenant between word and world which constitutes one of the very few genuine revolutions of spirit in Western history and which defines modernity itself.»

This division of history into three ages can be properly applied, of course, only to the Christian west, which also, for better or worse, produced modernity.

Faisal Devji is Reader in Indian History at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and the author of two books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (Hurst, 2005), and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (Hurst, 2009).

Faisal Devji is University Reader in Modern South Asian History at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and the author of two books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (Hurst, 2005), and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (Hurst, 2009).

Paul Lohman (Steve Coogan) is a history teacher whose sharp denunciations of modernity start to shade into misanthropy.

Other renowned authors have drawn together powerful analyses of these issues, with key examples being David Korten (The Great Turning), David Selby (Education and Climate Change), Basarab Nicolescu (From Modernity to Cosmodernity), Duane Elgin (Deep Big History essay), Peter Senge (The Fifth Discipline), and Margaret Wheatley (Leadership and the New Science, to name a few.

Consequently, I traced the history of Jews, Western Christians and Muslims from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century in the first part of the book, to show the advent of modernity and its impact upon traditional agrarian faith.

A stirring exploration of the nature of romantic attachment and of the mysterious allure of collecting, The Museum of Innocence also plumbs the depths of an Istanbul half Western and half traditional — its emergent modernity, its vast cultural history.

The Roads to Modernity is a thoughtful and wide - ranging discussion of an important period in the history of ideas.