Sentence examples for contemporary humanity from inspiring English sources

The most important aspect of this "first category" classification is that the exposition must cover the full range of activities of contemporary humanity.

To modernize is to take everything, the bad with the good, and not to modernize is to play no part in the life of contemporary humanity.

Yet the homogeneity of contemporary humanity is most apparent when it comes to our view of the natural world and of the human body.

Heidegger's fundamental objection to the aesthetic approach to art, then, is that such an approach follows from and feeds back into subjectivism, contemporary humanity's ongoing effort to establish "our unlimited power for calculating, planning, and molding [or "breeding," Züchtung] all things" (QCT 135/GA5 94).

In Helmbrechts walk, the mesh of meaning for Silas proceeds through her family and extends to history and contemporary humanity as a whole.

Scrooge's story, like the best works of the dark fantastic, use the genre as a means to reflect on contemporary humanity.

He believes that evolutionary psychology can explain what is wrong with art today — the decline of the high-art traditions, the loss of the critic's social status, and the "pretentious and unintelligible scholarship" of contemporary humanities departments.

In the contemporary humanities the term is used more loosely to imply, most commonly, an illegitimate generalization about identity (Heyes 2000).

David Brooks, AB'83, takes stock of contemporary humanities education and recalls the passion of late professor Karl Weintraub, AB'49, AM'52, PhD'57.

Attack of the Difficult Poems, his latest collection of essays, gathers some of his most memorably irreverent work while addressing seriously and comprehensively the state of contemporary humanities, the teaching of unconventional forms, fresh approaches to translation, the history of language media, and the connections between poetry and visual art.

Since the early 1990s, a burgeoning body of scholarly work in the new field of transgender studies has linked insights and analyses drawn from the experience or study of phenomena that disrupt or unsettle the conventional boundaries of gender with the central disciplinary concerns of contemporary humanities and social science research.