Sentences with phrase «polemical take»

His new film, called Where To Invade Next, is shrouded in secrecy but the title suggests another polemical take on US politics.

Beneath her lament for the lost role of criticism and polemical take on contemporary literary culture (such as it is), Ozick offers something quieter.

Not exact matches

Nonetheless, he feels that the polemical stance taken by the Church Fathers against other religions is not strictly necessary «in our own day».

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

His chief polemical focus is to show that individual events are the most concrete of things because the connectives between events, taken by themselves, are always somewhat abstract and indifferent to the adventitious determinations of the events connected.

Far from being just another polemical rant, Art's Prospect takes us inside the heads of those who execute and market contemporary art, helping us understand what they think they are doing, and why doing it is such a profitable business.

Some of the essays here are polemical and others apologetic, but the book taken all in all is a proposal.

As one who has been around the polemical track for more than fifty years, I don't take disagreements personally even when I feel that I have been misquoted inadvertently or otherwise.

We know that these three kinds of ministry of the New Testament epoch were modeled in part on Jewish and pagan precedents and we shall take note of the extent to which they were elaborated in self - conscious polemical parallelism alongside these rival institutions on the assumption that Christians were the militia of Christ under the heavenly Emperor and the true or new and ongoing Israel of God.

An unabashed atheist and an avidly polemical public intellectual, he has employed a scorched - earth vocabulary to take on religion, the evangelical right, Muslim fundamentalism, parochial education, and the faith - based political philosophy of George W. Bush.

The film doesn't assume a polemical position regarding the death penalty — either for or against — though in the context of Singaporean authoritarianism it probably would have been banned, with writer - director Boo Junfeng imprisoned, had it taken an explicitly abolitionist stance.

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.

It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction.In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality.

But I have seen dozens of polemical statements like yours — that Kyoto makes only 0.001 ºC of difference by then etc. — written by people who do not want to take responsibility for the future consequences of their actions.

If you have hard evidence of scientific fraud then, assuming you wish to be taken seriously, you will of course contact the journal and present it, or submit a comment for peer - review and publication, rather than posting polemical blog posts.

Phil, «If you have hard evidence of scientific fraud then, assuming you wish to be taken seriously, you will of course contact the journal and present it, or submit a comment for peer - review and publication, rather than posting polemical blog posts.»

Of course, if he'd had hard evidence of scientific fraud then, assuming he wished to be taken seriously, he would have contacted the journal and presented it, or submitted a comment for peer - review and publication, rather than posting polemical blog posts... right, Phil?

To the second part of RP's question: I feel that a book with an advocacy and polemical role has to take especial care with facts and inferences, and more clearly delineate where the author is being imaginative.

I feel that a book with an advocacy and polemical role has to take especial care with facts and inferences, and more clearly delineate where the author is being imaginative.