Sentences with phrase «symbolic interpretation as»

It is not a question of symbolic interpretation as in Faust.

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The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

This version of symbolic functioning allows a comparison between the interpretation of a sense presentation such as the sight of lightning and linguistic expression such as the word «tree».

We can find, therefore, very general similarities between the use and interpretation of sentences at the linguistic level and primitive natural signs as characterized in Whitehead's first version of symbolic reference.

The mention of God, known as dhikr, is another example of the symbolic interpretation of Islamic worship.

Each of the great religions has also developed its own symbolic language as its interpretation of human existence within the world.

To summarize, the theory of symbolic reference supports the view of a percipient event as a working through of various (potentially creative) imaginative interpretations.

Here, in a strange fashion, the original fusion of supposed fact and faith - image, after an interim period of being dismissed by the religious mind as purely symbolic and crudely so, becomes in our day once again the vivid symbol for a faith - interpretation of literal fact.

Though its meaning is open to interpretation, the song is commonly read as a symbolic reference to the nations that have suppressed Israel throughout history,

As with Johns» interpretations of the flag, Young pulls the most symbolic elements and complicates its representation.

Drawing inspiration from the symbolic status of society's others — such as prisoners, orphans and the disabled — Peggy Wauters employs a personal interpretation of codes and conventions that signify human frailty and folly.

... And Then It All Came Back To Me expands on metaphysical interpretations of the artist's dreams, the invented symbolic language that has long been a hallmark of the work, and most notably on the idea of self - portraiture as exploration of the artist - as - archetype.

Oceanscapes, waterfalls, sea creatures, and abstractions provide multiple interpretations of water — as a force (peaceful and destructive) of nature, a symbolic or mythological character, and as a subject for formal exploration.

They use varying kinds of imagery appropriated from popular culture and abstract interpretations of nature, used as a symbolic vocabulary to express a mystical, ephemeral and kaleidoscopic viewpoint.

The abject as described by Georges Bataille is a material that is withdrawn from its original state and has lost its form and meaning because of it... And this uncertainness completely wipes away the symbolic approach of the work and the material... I believe that all these different aspects and layers in the work are openings for different interpretations but I never give a clue.