"This is an attack against the values of freedom and democracy, against the humanism that we value so much in Brussels".
In his youth, the dominant mode of the day, in music and in other arts, was Mannerism: a rebellion against Renaissance humanism that emphasized flamboyant stylization, formal shock tactics, technical virtuosity, and intimations of the dark and the irrational.
This sentiment is surely typical only of the Romantic rebellion against Enlightenment humanism, the reaction — which Mishra details at such length — of the figures, including Rousseau, who have been most sympathetic to religion and mysticism and the irrational.
What was frequently read as anti-Communist propaganda at the time now looks like the last stand of classical Hollywood humanism against a soulless, special-effects-driven future.
Yet both artists pit their humanism against an extraordinary formal control and artifice, an innate attraction to the architectural and the abstract.
A new idea of the Renaissance began to emerge in his mind: not a burst of materialism and humanism against cramped learning but an eruption of certain recurring ancient ideas and images — icons.
Our experiences that week truly put the "human" in Humanism.
The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism.
It warned that the standards ignored evidence against evolution, promoted "secular humanism," and threatened to "take away the right of parents to direct the religious education of their children".
by ID1813748 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee: Because as Atticus shows us, love is about imagining what it is like to walk in another person's shoes... by PenCoops The God Argument: This is A C Grayling's case against religion and for humanism.
