Sentences with phrase «of political consciousness»

Anchored by recent gifts from Gund Gallery Board Member David Horvitz «74 and his wife Francie Bishop Good to the Gund Gallery Collection, this Gund Associate (intern)- curated exhibition offers a gendered lens through which to view 20th century civil rights activism so that we may better understand the roots and the aspirations of the political consciousness generated by Black liberation art, ephemera and digital culture today.

However others rejected conventional politics as well as artistic conventions, believing that a revolution of political consciousness had greater importance than a change in political structures.

Collaborating since 2003, Gerard and Kelly approach art as a series of experiments to work through questions of spectatorship, desire, authorship, and the formation of political consciousness.

The founding fathers of the liberal tradition from Hegel to Rousseau understood the feminine as woman's biological nature, lack of political consciousness, emotionality, irrationality, all of which made her a threat to public life and citizenship.

There is poor hope for the world if the newly arisen peoples share the infatuations and make the mistakes which characterized the European states at the period when they were at the same stage of development — the same stage of political consciousness.

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Many participants had hoped this Assembly would effect the unveiling of a «new, comprehensive, ecumenical theology» built upon creation consciousness and a broadly defined work of the Spirit, but the effort ran headlong into established political and theological commitments.

But there is perhaps a use we might make of the postmodern in apologetics, for the collapse of modernity may allow believers to speak once again about God without defensiveness or self - consciousness, may allow believers both to escape political categorization as liberal or conservative and to escape the modern view that sees political categories as fundamental.

Therefore, it will have essential need of an enemy against whom it will build itself; it is by recognizing and hating its enemies that the political body will find its own common consciousness.»

The technical distinction between receivers and transmitters reflects the social division of labor into producers and consumers, which in the consciousness industry becomes of particular political importance.

And this, too, was the pass of Thermopylæ at which Kierkegaard stationed himself to defend the individual against any philosophical, political, or religious teaching that tended to slack off this consciousness of the individual's essential responsibility and integrity.

If it came to light that decisions of the triage / lifeboat variety were being made in the distribution of our excess food resources, not for the sake of long - range survival and well - being of the greatest number based upon utilitarian calculation, but rather for the rawest, most crass and most selfish political reasons, would this not indeed have a devastating effect on the American moral consciousness?

When the transformation of individual consciousness that is the cornerstone of New Thought is translated into a corresponding commitment to work for the common welfare of all beings, it has the potential to provide fresh resources and perspectives for the social and political struggles central to the prophetic tradition.

If human nature has the two aspects of «being» and «consciousness» (being and being aware), political romanticism corresponds more to the former element, socialism to the latter.

No political project is more urgent for society than the recovery of classic Christian consciousness through the direct address of texts of Scripture and tradition.

Strategies must not be limited to the level of social mechanisms and political devices, but must be aimed at creating a new consciousness, a vision of a good future powerful enough to open us up to new, more effective ways of solving our problems.

The power of storytelling as a political act becomes obvious in Christian base communities: it awakens consciousness as it spins its verbal magic.

Change in circle 7 involves a combination of consciousness - raising education designed to increase enlightened caring for the whole biosphere, and social - political action to produce changes in the institutions of our society that are essential to protect our precious and fragile ecological environment.

With them, he opposes every form of «dogmatic mythology, «12 political or ecclesiastical authoritarianism, intellectual obscurantism or false consciousness.

Clearly, the understanding of these matters that underlies the demand for justice in the specifically political sense is closely related to our distinctively modern historical consciousness, by which I mean our consciousness of ourselves as historical subjects who bear full responsibility for creating ourselves and one another in and through our creation of society and culture.

As a matter of fact, with the full consciousness of our own historical agency, we become aware that the justice which love inevitably seeks and in which it finds expression is, above all, political justice.

Political entrepreneurs are beginning to exploit the rise of ethnic consciousness in the U.S. Political ethnicity and conflict are certain to grow when government validates or legitimates racial, religious or nationality quotas, proportional representation, community control, communalism or sectionalism.

Henry Nelson Wieman, for example, in The Issues of Life and Man's Ultimate Commitment, discusses many specific political questions in a style and with substance quite similar to that offered by Deutsch, but Deutsch gives no clues to indicate any consciousness of Wieman's work.

«Formal discourse becomes politically powerful when it becomes ideology; when it articulates and fuses into effective formulations opinions and attitudes that are otherwise too scattered and vague to be acted upon; when it mobilizes a general mood, «a set of disconnected, unrealized private emotions,» into «a public possession, a social fact»; when it crystallizes otherwise inchoate social and political discontent and thereby shapes what is otherwise instinctive and directs it to attainable goals, when it clarifies, symbolizes, and elevates to structured consciousness the mingled urges that stir within us.

Under present conditions, the intense consciousness raising about the «rightness» of personal choices that worked so well in the early days of the women's movement will end up escalating the divisive finger - pointing that stands in the way of political reform.

And I completely agree that while the mean - spirited aspects of the debate were disheartening, the * education * and political consciousness - raising were fantastic — and probably more likely to succeed in effecting political - social change than the other forms of debate seen yesterday (and today).

I'm hardly Bettina's biggest fan, but her point seemed very straightforward: that despite the Bush administration's efforts, the initiative is associated with the current administration in the common political consciousness, and thus likely to be on a list of partisan targets.

This idea that voters are being lulled into a false state of consciousness by the government and the wider political «establishment» is increasingly taking hold of the Leave campaign, particularly among Tory MPs.

The implication was that the critical revolutionary consciousness of some musicians of the 60s and 70s — such as the «redemption songs» of reggae artist, Bob Marley — is lacking in contemporary African and Caribbean musical political consciousness.

John P. McCormick: I think that a lack of the kind of class consciousness that was characteristic of the ancient Roman and medieval Florentine republics — in particular, the lack of a thorough - going distrust and resentment of the political influence of economic elites within modern republics — is the single greatest barrier to a revival of Machiavellian democratic republicanism today.

i thought it was one of his best speeches yet - packed with references to everyone from Kennedy (ask not what your country can do for you), to King (we will get to the promised land), via Lincoln, Reagon and even Nixon, as Sunder points out... he demonstrates a powerful generational consciousness, the ability to join the dots between his country's social and political history, and to see his own forthcoming presidency's place in that context.

The government also appears to have decided that it will not be able to proceed with this reform on any kind of cross-party basis, and so is keen to test out the conviction that the procedural reforms associated with EVEL will be employed on sufficiently few occasions that they may slip from political consciousness, while also looking substantive enough to satisfy the aspirations of its backbenchers.

However, you seem to imply that just by announcing the proposed cut (sometime last year I think) it would somehow go directly into the consciousness of voters who aren't political obsessives and so make a difference to the LD ratings The truth is that for the LD's it will take a general election campaign and Clegg / Cable / Hune hammering the issue home in debate after debate after debate for it to register with people who don't pay much attention to the ups and downs of everyday politics, let alone the tax proposals of the 3rd party.

Huge fan of this Ukip election leaflet's stream of consciousness style political rhetoric.

The redistricting of 2012 opened the door for New York Congressman Steve Israel to step into the political consciousness of northeast Queens, but despite conventional wisdom his national job as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) wasn't enough to raise his name recognition, it was a strong grassroots campaign initiative which helped ensure victory on Election Day.

Nation is a way of feeling, thinking and living, it is a psychological condition of the mind which emphasizes the consciousness of unity due to spiritual or other feelings.while the state emphasizes political unity and objectivity which is a condition of law, the state is an enforceable obligatiory condition inseparable from all civilized ways of living

In industrial countries outside of North America, however, population is creeping back into public and even political consciousness.

Under the leadership of co-directors Nicholas Spitzer and Fred «Rusty» Gage, and associate director Ralph J. Greenspan, KIBM seeks to discover the physical and biochemical processes that underlie learning, consciousness, memory, emotions and perhaps even political views.

The metaphysics of consciousness and political ramblings.

He wanted us to go beyond our narrow nationalistic political scope of seeing things and for us to understand that we must raise our consciousness levels and move beyond our antagonistic current «Type: zero level of consciousness» and move into a «Type: 1 level of a planetary consciousness.»

For the category EXPOSÉ, which recognizes the importance of raising political consciousness by bringing to light little - known facts, eighteen films were nominated, so select the best five:

Accordingly, the Political Film Society has nominated Downfall for best film exposé of 2005, best film raising consciousness about the superiority of democracy, and best film demonstrating the lunacy of war rather than peace.

There were only four films nominated for the category DEMOCRACY for promoting increasing consciousness of the need for more political decisionmaking by the people rather than by elites (Bitter Harvest, The Post, Tickling Giants, A United Kingdom).

In addition, members of the Political Film Society contributed chapters to an edited book, Hollywood Raises Political Consciousness: Political Messages in Feature Films, ed.

For the category EXPOSÉ, which recognizes the importance of raising political consciousness by bringing to light little - known facts, select one from the following:

To obtain a copy of any Working Paper, Syllabus, or the book Hollywood Raises Political Consciousness, see below:

For the category DEMOCRACY, promoting increasing consciousness of the need for more political decisionmaking by the people rather than by elites, select only one from the following:

Like those earlier films (both directed by Roland Joffe), there is a strong social consciousness and political content, but Menges also brings a subdued dramatic atmosphere and rich visual sensibility to the film, layering scenes with telling details that illustrate the conditions of life in this place and time.

Written by Peter Straughan, and according to its credits «inspired» by the 2005 documentary film of the same name, «Our Brand is Crisis» uneasily mixes the star vehicle with the screwball - political - comedy / satire with the (half - heartedly, in the end) impassioned call to social consciousness arms.

What they lack in political consciousness, though, fiction films of Sundance make up for by promoting a sense of social consciousness: a greater sense of empathy and compassion that broaden an audience's worldview and strengthen the social fabric.

The scene set in the movie theater at the center of the film functions as the kind of almost subliminally consciousness - raising political gesture he has to use to get his point across.