Sentences with phrase «many social critics»

In a guest column at the Hollywood Reporter, social critic Camille Paglia pins down why so many women in Hollywood are apparently finding it difficult to accept their age with grace.

In St. Louis I was introduced as a distinguished theologian, social critic --» and a noted journalist.»

Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

He is the social critic.

The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office by Ethan Anthony W.W. Norton, 176 pages, $ 60 Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

The evangelical community, to paraphrase social critic Michael Novak, seeks to leap from piety to practice with little reflection on guiding principles and practical goals.

I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the human being and of metaphysics undermines the kind of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.

Some social critics fear that any connection between faith and politics is liable to undermine democracy.

This movement, founded by Norwegian social critic Arne Naess, rejects as» anthropocentric» the notion that humans have greater inherent worth than other life forms.

He was not a social critic in any sustained fashion, though his social reflections could evoke powerful responses.

One of his novices, Ernesto Cardenal, was himself to become a poet of stature in his native Nicaragua as well as one of his country's most vociferous social critics.

Social critic Ernest van den Haag argues that any attempt to establish the moral wrongness of the death penalty must show that no crime ever deserves capital punishment; that is, he says, opponents of capital punishment must disprove the contention that there at least some convicted criminals who morally deserve execution.

Theologian and social critic Peter Leithart says, «the Devil...

In the 1950s, social critics were already bemoaning a stultifying spirit of conformity.

By juxtaposing the concerns of Dawson and Eliot to the cultural criticism of the Frankfurt School and other social critics like Neil Postman, one can begin to see an emerging critique of the forms of modernity during the first half of the twentieth century.

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«What a nation needs more than anything else,» writes social critic Martyn Eden, «is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a prophetic church within earshot.»

I'm all for a rigorously selective form of nostalgia, and that kind of nostalgia, practiced by our most astute social critics, is less blinding than liberating.

He said they had ups and downs in faith, were social critics, were highly interested in inclusivity and were relatively unorthodox in their view of faith and the world.

Some of our best philosophers and social critics have thought that our troubles do indeed stem from our loss of any consistent and coherent way of talking about the things that matter deeply.

The characterization of criminals as primarily victims of their environment, a notion that has become increasingly popular among public policy analysts and social critics since the 1950s, is the clearest example of the erosion of this belief.

While some social critics accuse youth of being lazy, indulgent, and narcissistic, others see cultural attitudes about work changing because of a transition from an industrial to a service culture.

Something very important died when, social critics and reformers ceased trying to make love an important ingredient in social policy.

Why have many social critics and reformers, including both conservatives and liberals, found fault with the ideals of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

This tolerance ranges from allowing political demagogues like Jackson to posture as moral spokesmen while maintaining their ties to bigots like Farrakhan to portraying those bigots as social critics.

The Liberator Devil would agree with Milton's Satan that «the mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heav»n of Hell, a Hell of Heav» n.» So he models that freedom from the interdictions associated with the conventional Heaven that keep one from realizing one's full potential as a social critic.

She is also a powerful polemicist: an acerbic social critic who pulls no punches in her articles in Commentary and the Wall Street Journal and her 1992 book If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews.

To social critics the devotion to family and to communal celebration seem bland and retrograde goals better perhaps than consumption and shopping but not exactly the stuff of bold designs and revolutionary politics.

Although many social critics have taken America as the particular scapegoat for contemporary evils, I have rejected anti-Americanism.

Was he a radical social critic and reformer?

Now comes O'Neal's fourth album, Respect, in which the Los Angeles Lakers center does not entirely disprove what the rock star and social critic Gregg Allman once said: «Rap?

Social critic Mary Wollstonecraft was philosophically against marriage but married William Godwin in 1796 after they discovered she was pregnant (she died in childbirth six months later), yet they had a «highly unconventional marriage during which they lived far enough apart to permit the continuing exchange of letters.»

Well, that's because the Supreme Court doesn't much like it, determining more than 100 years ago that polygamy was «an offence against society» (Reynolds v. U.S.) and compared it to «murders sanctified by religious belief, such as human sacrifice or the burning of women on their husbands» funeral pyres,» or so writes lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer.

But I just finished reading two books about what's happening on college campuses now — American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus by sociologist Lisa Wade and Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus by feminist and social critic Laura Kipnis — and I actually do feel quite blessed that my college days are long past.

Despite the nostalgia of some conservative social critics, the traditional father - as - helper - only model is outdated and outmoded, and it won't work nowadays.

Though a satirist always risks blowback, both from those who don't get the joke and from some who do, when it comes to social criticism, I tend to follow what we might call the Joe Bob Briggs Doctrine: think of the social critic as a machine gun spraying fire across the cultural landscape, and «when a target screams, you've found the sacred cow.

Many social critics, including Binyavanga Wainaina, Emma Dabiri, and Brian Bwesigye have taken issue with Selasi and the broader Afropolitan discourse — arguing that it reflects an elitist representation of African diasporas, which depoliticizes social relations and commodifies African cultures.

As my friend, writer, and social critic James Howard Kunstler suggests in The Long Emergency, all our central systems will unravel as we move into the end of oil period.

[2] Noted scholar, social critic, and political activist Professor Noam Chomsky has commented that, while Bernie Sanders might call himself a socialist, he is actually an «honest New Dealer» as opposed to being an actual socialist

Represented by National Commissioner and Chairman of the TEI Board, Professor Okechukwu Ibeanu, the INEC Chairman also described the late Professor as a fierce social critic, a fiery activist and an uncompromising patriot who was brutally honest and sincere to a fault.

A civil rights organisation, Kogi Renaissance Group (KRG) has condemned the arrest and detention of a social critic, Austin Okai, on the alleged orders of the...

Grandin is not a social critic, and bad becoming normal is not a moral concept.

First Reformed lays bare the work of a filmmaker operating as both spirit - guide and social critic, gravely and passionately showing humankind's destruction of their world for profit.

Ava DuVernay's 13th is an equally important film and worth a watch, but the lyricism and beauty of Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro, based on an unfinished manuscript by social critic James Baldwin detailing his friendships and interactions with civil rights leaders, has stuck with me.

I Am Not Your Negro retains the spirit of Baldwin's work as a social critic, while continuing that work in its own way.

I Am Not Your Negro Film Review by Kam Williams Oscar - Nominated Documentary Inspired by James Baldwin's Unfinished Manuscript When novelist / social critic James Baldwin passed away in 1987, he left behind an unfinished opus entitled «Remember This House.»

Gauld is a social critic, but his sense of the world is guided less by the neo-Victorianism of today's conservatives than by a kind of New England transcendentalism — the exacting spirit of the old evangelicals.

That excuse, however soothing it may be to educators, politicians, and social critics, turns out to be a crutch that's unfounded in evidence.

As social critic Theodore Roszak states in The Cult of Information, «An excess of information may actually crowd out ideas, leaving the mind (young minds especially) distracted by sterile, disconnected facts, lost among the shapeless heaps of data.»

Drawing on earlier criticism of the organization society and its alienating effects, social critic Paul Goodman, already famous for his subversive Growing Up Absurd (1960), condemned the school system in toto with a slim volume called Compulsory Mis - education and the Community of Scholars (1962).