Disagreeing with some critics' arguments that the Shanghai Commune was a negation of the party-state, I argue that it neither negated the party nor the state.
It is a negation of sporting values, it encourages corruption, it's unsporting and it's unEnglish.
It is by definition a negation of humanity, the opposite of life, sense, and sensibility.
But those can be seen as shortcomings in realizing democracy's ideals, not a negation of them.
Anomie = 30 words that usually show "a negation of value preference", nihilism, disappointment and futility.
Anti-fashion is fashion, because it's a reaction to the current visual culture, a negation of it.
What if the refusal to admire popular appeal as an innate achievement is a negation of humanity?
If Jan Masaryk did choose this way it would be a negation of his whole life's work.
It seemed both an ally of the pain she had been caused by the primroses and a negation of it.
"Atheism is a negation of belief, so can't be taught in the same way as other belief systems", he says.
"This is a negation of democracy," said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a televised address outside Parliament.
