Sentences with phrase «polemical engagement»

It will also take strong rhetorical and polemical engagement with education traditionalists — many of which are ready to engage in name - calling, sophistry and crude propaganda — in order to win the day.

Smith says that this reticence isn't limited to the Olympics, and says there is a lack of equipping for polemical engagement with Muslims.

This learning process goes in the other direction as well: I am likely to learn a great deal about the inner logic and systematic connections among my own religious beliefs by subjecting them to a polemical engagement, things, again, that I could learn in no other way.

Catharine MacKinnon, to return to one of the examples mentioned earlier, is extremely unlikely to become a conservative Baptist as a result of apologetical engagement with Billy Graham; and I am rather unlikely to decide that I have no mental life and that disembodied existence is not a possibility for me as a result of polemical engagement with Patricia Churchland.

Not exact matches

While some artists eschewed the language of abstraction for more popular or polemical forms, Whitten's engagement with the surfaces of his compositions grew more nuanced.