He was an incisive, razor-sharp thinker, who sought out the flash points of political and social conflict and made them the bricks and mortar of his architecture.
Through incisive analyses of these thinkers, Kripal ushers the reader into a beguiling world somewhere between fact, fiction, and fraud.
This superb collection presents more than forty incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the last hundred years who, in their own unique ways, engaged with and helped shape the modern world.
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality is an incisive, erudite book by a major thinker.
Despite arguing itself into a cul-de-sac, "The Anatomy of Racial Inequality" is an incisive, erudite book by a major thinker.
The major merit of both of these thinkers lies in their incisive analyses of aspects of modern consumer societies, especially American though their proposed remedies remain uncertain.
In the midst of a run at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, "The Coast of Utopia" has already made a surprise backlist hit of Isaiah Berlin's "Russian Thinkers," a collection of incisive portraits of Herzen, the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, the literary critic Vissarion Belinsky and others.
(Holden) ★ 'Paul Goodman Changed My Life' (No rating, 1 29) This spirited, incisive documentary chronicles the life and work of a poet, thinker, activist and intellectual gadfly whose ideas — about sexuality, education and civic life — may well be due for revival.
As hopeful as it is incisive, Art and Revolution encourages a new generation of artists and thinkers to refuse to participate in the tired prescriptions of marketplace and authority and instead create radical new methods of engagement.
