This isn't really that kind of manifesto at all, it's rather a polemic for inclusivity.
The documentary, called "The Promise" during a festival run, is a plea, but not a polemic, for reassessment of Soering's incarceration.
Unfortunately, Planck, who had always supported Schlick in the past, misunderstood the essay, interpreting it as a polemic for Machian positivism, and harshly condemning it (Planck 1932).
I drew far more heavily on those books — by Alex de Waal, and David Rieff, and Michael Maren, and David Kennedy, and Fiona Terry, and by Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi, to name just a few — than on Polman's, although hers was featured because it is newly published, and because it is a polemic that, for all its flaws, demands attention.
No wonder the Mirror's associate editor, Kevin Maguire, calls in an accompanying polemic for "unelected peers" to be binned.
In the nineteen-fifties, there would be hearings in Congress after Fredric Wertham, a New York psychiatrist, published a polemic blaming comics for everything from truancy to murder.
To him, a map is a "social construction," a "thick text," a "redescription of reality," a "silent arbiter of power," a "polemic," a "manifesto for a set of beliefs about the world," or a "text of power".
In France, where Thomas Paine wrote "The Rights of Man," a polemic soon vindicated for both men and women by England's Mary Wollstonecraft, our outspoken espousal of human rights is now seen to be a manifestation of hegemony by an unwelcome "hyperpower".
There he wrote his first book of prose, a polemic called Notes for a New Culture (which wasn't published until 1976), which made the radical assertion that English culture had been in a state of terminal decline since the 1930s, held back by an Edwardian sense of old-fashioned humanism that had been overtaken by the modernism of Ashbery, Joyce, Robbe-Grillet and others.
The book is unashamedly a polemic and a plea for support for this grand vision, and its partisanship, first-person conversational style and occasionally immoderate comments may distract some readers from its message.
Obviously there was fuel for a polemic here.
