Sentences with phrase «ideological points of departure»

«The author approaches the David story as an imaginative writer, giving play to that dialectical fullness of conception that leads the greatest writers (Shakespeare, Stendhal, Balzac, Tolstoy, Proust, to name a few apposite instances) to transcend the limitations of their own ideological points of departure,» Alter states.

To transcend one's «own ideological points of departure» means, in a theological context, to be carried artistically beyond one's own take on the ethical and the theological — a transcendence authorized by the text but much resisted by the church.

Not exact matches

Taking the conversion of infrastructure — oftentimes cold, invisible technical systems — into a kind of lauded aesthetics that penetrate power structures as the point of departure, the trio plunges into post-1950s Chinese audio - visual materials — from the archive of the propaganda pictorial Renmin Huabao, government recordings, to politicized pop music from the early 2000s and their music videos — to trace an aestheticized infrastructure's horizons and its ideological workings.