Primed by his bohemian leanings and
his radical political beliefs, he was a product of the cultural moment when the radical visual innovations of the Cubists and Fauve artists were undermining visual art's comfortable bourgeois realism and strict academic traditions.
Not exact matches
«After several months of interviews with friends, teachers and coaches still reeling from the shock, what emerges is a portrait of a boy who glided through life, showing virtually no signs of anger, let alone
radical political ideology or any kind of deeply felt religious
beliefs,» the magazine explained.
In his more recent writings, he even attempts to combine an ironic sense of the
radical contingency of our language, desires, and
beliefs, with a strong commitment to liberal
political values, such as the need to fight against pain and suffering and the importance of achieving solidarity as members of a community.
Crawford situates Wahhabism in the second part of the twentieth century within what he terms the formation of «hybrid»
radical groups — Al - Qa «ida and ISIS, but also earlier groups such as the Awakening movement that took shape in the early 1990's that «infused [Wahhabism] with new ideas» and «drew the line between
belief and unbelief at new points on the religio -
political spectrum.»
Just as in Bultmann's analysis the questions of
belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of
radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and
political interpretation.
While I have
political differences of opinion with both Obama and Romney, neither strikes me as a man who will drag his
radical religious
beliefs into the presidency because neither man brags about his
radical religious
beliefs.
In all these respects the values, attitudes and
beliefs of the oriental religious groups, the human potential movement and even a group like the Christian World Liberation Front, as well as the more flexible of the
radical political groups, would be consonant with the new regime and its needs.
Just as in Bultmann's analysis the question of
belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of
radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and
political interpretation.32
My central claim in the book is that the «ontological turn'taken by a number of thinkers of
radical or agonist democracy, in the
belief that reflecting on the essential dynamics of
political being would engender a revivified understanding of possibilities for democratic action, created a particularly influential strand of socially weightless theorising.
William Sanger was a
radical and revolutionary at heart, a romantic, a fighter for his
beliefs and a
political philosopher (he was working on an illustrated biography of Thomas Paine at his death).
His
political beliefs were as
radical as his art.