Sentences with phrase «radical social criticism»

They also praised Mr. Levine's unabashed use of poetry as a vehicle for radical social criticism, noting his frank explorations of the nature of masculinity and his cleareyed depictions of working - class lives and the immigrant Jewish experience.»

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The Social Gospel movement with its happy worldliness had lost its capacity for genuinely radical criticism.

A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing perfection too rigorously on human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.

In any event, here is where an authentic theory of natural law proves to be indispensable for Judaism, but only when the social contract theory is abandoned, a task that «requires radical criticism of the key political idea of the Enlightenment,... that human beings can construct their own primary society autonomously.

Similarly, an attempt by John Swinney, the dry - as - dust education secretary, to rebut recent internal criticism that the Scottish government lacks a radical edge amounted to little more than claiming the SNP sat «firmly astride Scotland's social democratic centre», while elsewhere he said the currency proposition won't «necessarily» have to be any different from that offered up in 2014, a so - called «currency union».