What the culture wars represent is not the continuation
of ideological struggle between left and right as such, but the dearth of political ideas with which to do battle.
It is a highly conceptual space — part club, part theatre stage — in which a disparate cast of characters from all sides
of the ideological struggle play their parts in a burlesque of politics, culture and identity.
The body as a topic threads through the D Daskalopoulos Collection in various ways, be it as a crucible and executor of art, a social entity, or a theatre
of ideological struggle.
Not exact matches
Alberta's
struggling economy is in the hands
of an
ideological, inexperienced ruling party and a vociferously partisan official opposition.
In
ideological retrospect, the fierce
struggle between Nazism and communism served as forms
of Hegelian historicism» left, right, and both hideous.
To be free
of ideological captivity is to «join the community
of struggle,» to oppose racism and sexism, to fight for human rights and women's ordination, to engage in social action, to envision «holiness as justice,» and to develop nonsexist language and imagery in order to «empower» and free the congregation to engage in the «
struggle for liberation.»
Changes in relation to production, political organization,
ideological struggles continue to raise a number
of questions for which the traditional theological and ethical repertoire
of the confessional churches may have little or nothing ready - made to say.
The symbolic nature
of the
struggle is stated succinctly in Roman's discussion
of the 1917 constitutional congress: «Although other arguments were also used against the clergy, the issue returned time and again to the saving and the building
of the nation and to destroying the
ideological domination
of the church» (italics added).55 Article 3.
Mastering the faculty's language, learning how to debate within the school's
ideological limits, negotiating the foibles and passions
of teachers and other students, figuring out how to be accepted in this community and then how to relate to the folks back home — this
struggle can be debilitating as well as exhilarating.
Afghanistan, where all the planning for the attack on September 11 allegedly was undertaken, was a clear case
of a victim in the geo - political and
ideological struggles of the contemporary world.
Christians on the
ideological left, despite a seemingly hardheaded resort to various «hermeneutics
of suspicion» (laying bare the underlying economic, racial and gender power
struggles), imply that the goal
of Christianity entails some earthly triumph
of the love
of Jesus.
If there is, then perhaps fundamental desire to live and enjoy life may function to moderate the nationalistic frenzies, the absurd
struggles for power, the long ingrained historical hatreds, and the blind
ideological fanaticisms that now stand in the way
of creative, effective responses to the present crisis.
The students Brooks examined in 2001, who had entered adolescence after the fall
of the Berlin Wall, spent their formative years in a world predicted by Francis Fukuyama in 1992: «The
struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide
ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving
of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction
of sophisticated consumer demands.»
Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements
of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact
of modernity on Indian life at its religious level, and India's liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the
struggle for political independence and nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation
of Enlightenment humanism at the
ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view
of Gandhism.
Arturo Carlo Jemolo, with his ceaseless
struggle to defend religious liberty, critically, polemically, and legally, is such an example.42 So is Danilo Dolci, with his effort to find, outside
of any religious or
ideological orthodoxy, forms
of social participation that will be neither impersonally bureaucratic nor boss dominated.43 Nor should the achievements
of many such men, working through parties and independently, be underestimated.
Dale Van Kley's new book, The Religious Origins
of the French Revolution, seeks to revive a sort
of Whiggish interpretation
of the French Revolution as the
struggle for freedom against sacral monarchy, with much
of the
ideological discourse
of the revolutionaries deriving from little expected religious controversies» beginning with the rise and fall
of Calvinism in Catholic France, continuing through the
struggles over theological Jansenism, and ending in the political
struggles of the French high courts
of justice, the parlements, with the administrative monarchy
of the eighteenth century.
Just as society is divided by class
struggle, so the church and its theology are divided between an
ideological use
of religion to sanctify the ruling class and a prophetic tradition that denounces this misuse
of religion.
While defeated by history in the Cold War, the Italian Communist Party had emerged as somewhat victorious from the
struggles of the Italian First Republic, and was not ready to declare its
ideological bankruptcy or to accept the liberals» «friendly takeover».
Developments in post war - Angola and post-Apartheid South Africa, where a rejuvenating capitalist ideology rose out
of the rubble
of the former and the eventual
ideological shifts
of icons
of the Apartheid
struggle in the latter, contributed further to Adom - Otchere's now inevitable
ideological shift.
The war
of words between Paul, King and (related to Sandy aid) Christie has escalated over the past several weeks and comes at a time when the Republican Party is continuing to experience an internal
struggle between the recently empowered Tea Party / Libertarian set and the ever - shrinking circle
of moderates that hasn't yet given up hope
of reclaiming
ideological control.
Secondary concerns include the town's response to the recent flood disasters, and deeper
ideological struggles over taxes, budget cuts, and the size
of government.
The researchers found ten different frames used to communicate climate change: Settled Science, Political or
Ideological Struggle, Role
of Science, Uncertain Science, Disaster, Security, Morality and Ethics, Opportunity, Economics and Health.
Informed by contemporary theories
of the history and sociology
of science and medicine, the book considers the conflict between Cameron and Pauling, on the one hand, and their critics, Charles Moertel and the Mayo Clinic researchers, on the other, as a symptom
of a broader epistemological, socioeconomic and
ideological struggle.
One might say the gains outweigh the losses in such an
ideological struggle, though being subsumed into an already homogenized culture
of straightness has limited appeal.
My favorites, because
of their clarity and even - handedness, are Gerald Gutek's textbookish but readable Philosophical and
Ideological Voices in Education (Allyn and Bacon, 2004) and Herbert Kliebard's The
Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893 — 1958 (Routledge, 1995).
«While parents desperately
struggle to get their children a place in a local school, the government continues to promote its
ideological free schools programme instead
of giving local authorities the legal powers to open new schools where they are needed.»
In Liz Magic Laser's Kiss and Cry (2015), figure skating children voice their anger at being deployed as pictures
of innocence and announce themselves as a political class; in Jesse Jones's The
Struggle Against Ourselves (2011), dancers recreate études from Soviet biomechanical workshops in the style
of a Busby Berkeley musical, highlighting aesthetic dialogues between
ideological paradigms; whilst in Jibade - Khalil Huffman's IF THIS MEANS YOU (2016), a persuasive rhetorical poetry has been wrought from seductive advertising imagery.
Early on, I started to paint in a more commercial and illustrative manner, which felt completely liberating, as I was no longer
struggling with the
ideological weight
of representation in fine art.
The (In) constancy
of Space -
Struggle for Identity is a group multimedia exhibition which includes works by eminent Dutch and Croatian Contemporary visual artists dealing with the concept
of man made space and its (in) constancy, not only in physical sense but also on sociological, symbolical, psychological and
ideological level.
The exhibition «Parapolitics» brings together artworks from the 1930s to the present by artists that prefigure and reflect the
ideological and formal
struggles arising from the cultural Cold War, but also works by contemporary artists critically reassessing the normalized narratives
of modernism.
Though this exchange predates the photographs shown here, it embodies the
struggle of intellectuals in the early part
of the twentieth century to get their
ideological footing, and in particular to define a future for their medium.
The
ideological struggle that is being fought now over the issue
of «Climate Change» (and related, quasi-Marxist weasel concepts such as Sustainability) may not yet involve the bloodshed caused in the wars against Nazism and Stalinism, but the threat it poses to individual freedom and economic security is every bit as great.
Carl Albert was a Congressional icon who championed Medicare and other programs that are now part
of a bitter
ideological struggle.