Sentences with phrase «particular historical point»

Holmes's social Darwinism is exhibited in his view that judges express the wishes of their class at a particular historical point, albeit this view is in clear tension with his view that judges must decide cases fairly.

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This suggests, in passing, that the moral stances Taylor is delineating may be permanent possibilities of the human spirit, not quite so tightly built into particular communities of discourse at particular points of historical development.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

Finally, we investigated individuals» involvement in and experiences with online dating and Internet personals ads at a single point in time during a particular historical era.

If this sounds familiar, it is: Rules Don't Apply, through no particular fault of Beatty's, has been released at potentially the worst time in decades in terms of piquing interest in its peculiar historical center point.

Whether or not a collection dedicated to the art of a particular country needs to serve as a historical museum is a moot point, but given that art history is now intimately linked to the study of social and political issues, presenting the old cocktail of countesses and Chippendale has a reduced impact.

Other paintings, sculptures, and photographs displayed in MATRIX 261 point to her interest in historical sculpture, in particular a Roman marble mask of Marcus Aurelius that she encountered in the Malmö Konstmuseum.

Eschewing a particular art - historical definition of or vantage point from which to view his art, Aldrich sees his artistic practice as a constantly evolving force.

As a project that emerged from Buenfeld's curatorial residency with AIT last year, and her ongoing research, «At the still point of the turning world...» is a selection of works that proposes questions about sculptural and dynamic form with a particular focus on dance and ceramics - two craft traditions with a strong historical and contemporary presence in Japan.

In particular, I found inspirational the writing by Kroker and Harold Innis and Innis» determination to create a fusion point between individual circumstance as historical beings buffeted by social forces beyond our control and silent language of industrial technology -LSB-...]

One particular historical scene of an American astronaut being rescued from floating away into space by a Soviet cosmonaut is symbolic of Park's deep longing for a truce between South and North Korea; each country was at one point controlled by the US and the USSR, respectively.

Li Jianguo Born in 1952 is a continuation of his method of «historical writing» in his art making, in which he takes his own perspective as the starting point and fuses his personal, lived experience with ideological frameworks, thereby weaving them into a portrait of Li Jianguo: an ideological individual who is at once particular and universal.

Some jurisdictions — Ontario and the federal, for example — have offered free and more or less current access to primary law for years, with some depth of historical content and ability to manipulate searches to locate the law at particular points in time.

And on it goes from there, with Google Books enabling one to zero in on a primary source to resolve a particular point, or in the midst of reading a work of great specialization in a journal article, to gain greater context and background from a book providing a historical survey of the incident if only in a «preview» of a few pages.