Sentences with phrase «social thinker»

Selected essays on liberalism, tradition, and civil society by one of the more humane social thinkers of this American century.

A few years after this critique of development from a Third World standpoint, a second dissenting movement appeared, primarily among social thinkers in advanced industrial countries.

One of them occurred primarily among social thinkers in the Third World, especially Latin America, who began to reject the idea of development for that of liberation.

Catholic social thinkers mounted an early and sustained critique of the doctrinaire individualism and the abstract social contract approaches of theorists on whom modern liberalism rests: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and their followers.

Parents make the critically necessary sacrifice without which society would collapse like Jeb Bush's presidential campaign: We shell out vast sums of money on everything from diapers to chess camp to prepare the next generation of taxpayers, who will be funding the retirement of people like the childless / childish Meghann Foye, whose pay - me - even - if - I - didn't - do - anything attitude says not «imaginative social thinker,» but «squeegee man.»

I am a passionate social thinker and author.

Curated by Ingrid Swenson (Peer, London) the exhibition will be shown in the historic Gibson Galleries, and will incorporate an installation over twenty metres in length, exploring pertinent questions of our times, as offered by over 40 leading social thinkers and commentators.

Best known for his classic defense of liberty and polemic against statism, The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich Hayek was deservedly honored by the Nobel Prize as one of the most influential economic and social thinkers of the twentieth century.

Scientists, social thinkers and the global public are realizing that humankind has transformed the natural planet into an industrialized one, and we must transition again to a sustainable planet if we are to survive.

It is the cleverly used archive footage that really fascinates — though not nearly so effectively as similar material did in John Amkomfrah's moving film about the social thinker Stuart Hall, showing at the current Liverpool Biennial.