Sentences with phrase «saw leading intellectuals»

This event saw leading intellectuals such as Stuart Hall, Irit Rigoff, Paul Gilroy and Colin Macabe come together to discuss different perspectives for understanding contemporary capitalism, the different forms it takes and its characteristics, and whether it can still be described in the same terms used by classic Marxism.

Not exact matches

Have seen where your intellectual curiosity is leading you to by your comments, good try..

In Larsen's account of anthropology, we see, to the contrary, that generations of leading British anthropologists have never been able to ignore their slain God, Jesus Christ, but have recurrently and with varying results wrestled with the truth claims of Christianity, often engaging theology as a highly generative intellectual conversation partner.

The center is part of an ambitious experiment Rozelle is leading that aims to find solutions to what he sees as a crisis of gargantuan proportions in China: the intellectual stunting of roughly one - third of the population.

While the guy should have been a little smoother about his response, I can easily see how he could be lead into the intellectual trap he fell into.

We see an intellectual lightweight who I would not employ on any SLT that I led.

Though he never lived to see the full blossoming of movements such as Minimalism and Post-Painterly Abstraction, his focus on the formal qualities of Abstract Expressionist mark making definitely led to their intellectual development and their critical success.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

I think these reports serve a purpose in the sense that they stir up a debate, and to that extent if it leads to intellectual activity I think it's a worthwhile effort and I'd like to see all kinds of organisations get into subjects like this.