It was a self-conscious defence of the idea of art.
In fact, there have been changes on both sides of the Atlantic which feed on each other, increasing mutual suspicion.In Brussels the process of European integration has begun to touch on areas that are inevitably more sensitive for the United States than mere economics: in particular, defence and the idea of setting up a European military force.
Mr Savater and Rosa Díez, a former Basque Socialist leader, have set up a new party of the radical centre called Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD), in an effort to combine social liberalism with a defence of the idea of Spain.
Recent examples that I enjoyed include philosopher John Armstrong's In Search of Civilization: Remaking a Tarnished Idea, which offers a refreshing defence of the idea of civilisation, and Helen Small's The value of the humanities, which provides an exploration for the reasons we study humanities within an historical context.
Challenged about why the caller should have to uproot his family to afford the tax, Clegg mounted a robust defence of the idea, despite concerns in some parts of the party that he is lukewarm about the policy to impose a 1% charge on the value of properties worth more than £2m.
A more recent and biologically detailed defence of the idea that living things have representations and goals and hence have moral worth is found in Agar 2001.
The claim that attention is not sufficient for consciousness is typically made as part of a defence of the idea that attention and consciousness are underpinned by two distinct brain processes (see, e.g., Koch and Tsuchiya, 2007).
However, the Franciscan Order routinely embraced the practice of missionary violence, including corporal punishment and the defence of the idea of "holy war" against non-Christians.
Jones and Edward Glover, his colleague, concluded that the doctors had erected "unconscious self-defences" against the idea of sex.
The book is called Unapologetic because it isn't giving an "apologia", the technical term for a defence of the ideas.
