In another manifesto, espousing a Young Classicism, Busoni called for the renunciation of the sensuous and subjective to "reconquer serenity".
It calls for the renunciation of verbal pomp: "He was overwhelmed by a wave of self-loathing, panic and a sense of loss that, in staccato bursts, flushed the air from his lungs till the moisture in his sleep-starved eyes formed a vitreous glaze that mercifully blurred his reflection in the mirror".
The Saudi plan also calls for a renunciation of violence by both sides, as well as an end to construction of Israeli settlements on lands that would be part of a new Palestinian state should Israel accept the peace initiative offered in Beirut in March by Arab leaders.
The passage indeed calls for the renunciation of property, and it admonishes disciples to remain on the alert at all times.
And in "Nonviolence," when the chorus quotes a Hindu text calling for kindness and renunciation, the music has a slashing, relentless power.
Whether Mr. Abe will be able to pursue that ambition — to overturn the constitutional clause that calls for the complete renunciation of war — remains to be seen.
This fundamental recognition that the accidents of history ordinarily prevent the achievement of human perfection, which is otherwise in principle wholly possible, is what Goethe came to call Entsagung ("renunciation").
Mr. Abe has long had an ambition to overturn the constitutional clause that calls for Japan's complete renunciation of war.
At that time he called for Israeli withdrawal, a renunciation of terrorism by the Palestinians and their Arab sympathizers, and an acknowledgment by all Arab states that both Israel and a Palestinian state have equal rights to exist.
The first ground – let's call it wartime renunciation – is very similar to existing law, but fighting for or in the service of a proscribed terrorist organisation will now be grounds for automatic loss of Australian citizenship.
There was what one historian called a "renunciation of renunciation".
