Sentences with phrase «utopian ideals for»

For Perez, Caribbean - style architecture reflected the political and social circumstances of the Caribbean nations in the 1950s and 1960s, and suggested utopian ideals for a better tomorrow.

And we substitute devotion to our utopian ideals for the posture of trust in an open future.

Not exact matches

Hope for our society lies in the possibility of the rebirth of visionary thought, utopian dreaming, the resurrection of the split between present and future that provides the dynamic of change in the direction of projected ideals.

Surprisingly enough, in his own paradoxical way Reinhold Niebuhr provides support for the idea that utopian ideals have a transforming power.

The last thing the philosopher should be is an aloof onlooker or a rhetorical cheerleader, for «without the knowledge of actual conditions and of relations of cause and effect, any values that we set up as ends are bare ideals in the sense in which ideal» means utopian, without means for its realization» (JDE 18).

The conception of peace as an ordered tranquillity which must continually be worked for through history contrasts markedly with the utopian ideal of peace found in some religious and nonreligious thinking about the possibilities of international order, not to mention with the empirical reality of conflict within states and conflicts between states and nonstate actors in the contemporary world.

The search for alternatives passes through more general and realistic perspectives, while nevertheless being inspired by utopian ideals.

«I'm always aiming for a serenity as a Utopian ideal,» Owens explains, in the seductive, measured drawl with which he typically expresses his darkest, most convoluted thoughts.

Where everyone is expected to snitch on neighbors, relatives, and colleagues for the good of utopian, if by now worn - out, socialist ideals, it becomes harder to despise individual informants.

Instead of trying to specify the amount of progress students should make based on some utopian ideal, it rewards or sanctions schools for making more (or less) progress than one might expect under the circumstances.

This attempt at a utopian ideal starts off promising, but soon the gentle equilibrium among the families disintegrates: unspoken resentments between the couples begin to fester; the project's funding becomes tenuous; and Izzy's growing feelings for Dr. Grind make her question her participation in this strange experiment in the first place.

Instead, Henry chose Fairhope, Alabama, a town with utopian ideals and a haven for strong - minded individualists.

It is like the Catholic Church persecuting Galileo for saying the earth revolved around the sun, except the new behavioral «church» is the Church of Extremists and The Politically Correct, ruled by the operant conditioning / «all positive» / clicker training «priests», persecuting those who preach reality because it conflicts with this new church's utopian ideals of how the world should work.

From Many, One, From Anyone, is a site - specific project for We the People, which references utopian and contradictory American ideals, pedagogy, socialization, and protest.

The «white cube» was considered to be out of time and space, an ideal, a sterile, utopian place for no less sterile autonomous art.

Abstraction, however, became suspect during the 1959 Revolution, led by Fidel Castro, for its earlier radical associations and utopian ideals.

Using modernist aesthetics and ideals elucidated by the Russian constructivists and the Bauhaus school — both of which are movements known for their utopian aspirations — Cerrillo makes steel frames that outline empty gallery space, exploring the failure of Modernist abstraction to connote real meaning.

The Gardener Digs in Another Time, which is on show till 9 October 2016, reflects upon the use of the garden in visual culture as a vehicle for utopian thought and an emblem for an ideal society.

Ryan Lauderdale mines the past for abandoned styles and utopian ideals to sublimate into sculpture — constructions that play on the notion of the archive and reify discarded histories.

Influenced by the utopian ideals of the progressive education movement, it placed the arts at the center of liberal arts education and believed that in doing so it could better educate citizens for participation in a democratic society.

Similarly, the fair worked with Thai - born Rirkrit Tiravanija to present an herbal garden, kitchen, and communal dining area on the Messeplatz as Do We Dream Under the Same Sky, a conceptual project that riffs on the artist's ongoing investigations of sustainability and utopian ideals as the impetus for art practice.