Sentences with phrase «radical decentering»

The Eucharist effects a radical decentering of the individual by incorporating the person into a larger body.

Not exact matches

The theological language of sin and grace once spoke of a decentered ego with all the force of the most radical French postmodernists.

However both Whitehead and Derrida's critique of modernism present a noble and exciting possibility for decentering the domination and absolutist claims of modernity; opening the way for other philosophical perspectives without necessarily falling prey to a radical relativism.

A demand for the impossible: decolonization, decentering, radical thinking, radical action, radical making.

Foster concludes that the result of Matisse's radical program was an intense decentering of viewing experience, a «blinding» of conventional ways of seeing.

If Steinberg and Foster both intuitively sensed this decentering as the keystone of Matisse's radical invention, I suspect that Hirst's spot paintings, especially when able to be viewed en masse as they are now, effect a similar visual experience.

The steel - mesh veiled structure, whose form is often likened to a decentered stack of sugarcubes, was a stunning and ballsy proposition for an institution that has always sought to be radical and cutting - edge — even if critics including New York Magazine's Jerry Saltz bemoaned that «the museum, cool - looking as it is, is short on exhibition space.»