To understand Habermas's mature positions, we must start with his Theory of Communicative Action (TCA), a two-volume critical study of the theories of rationality that informed the classical sociologies of Weber, Durkheim, Parsons, and neo-Marxist critical theory (esp. Lukács, Horkheimer, Adorno).
But Freud was also a man singularly of his own time, steeped in Old World culture and moral gravitas, informed by the classical, premodernist perspective of his literary heroes, Goethe and Schiller.
"White Chalk" is also informed by the classical music she listened to almost exclusively while making it, from Beethoven, Bach and Handel to personal favorites such as "sacred minimalists" Arvo Part and Henryk Gorecki, to new interests including Ralph Vaughan Williams and medieval composer William Lawes.
As Lushkov underscores, Martin deftly blends two classical genres here: epic heroism and classical tragedy inform the series in equal parts.
Charles Anderson's love for the idiom and manners of classical ballet informed the New York debut program of Company C Contemporary Ballet, his San Francisco-based troupe, on Thursday night at the Joyce SoHo.
It informed the United States.
Elsewhere, inform the police.
While the UK dance music influence is an obvious one, the way that "Oh No" is informed by classical composition, through the dense layering of percussion, synths, piano presets and vocal samples, is more subtle.
BOBO STENSON TRIO The Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson is rightly heralded for his subtleties of touch and mood: he's deeply informed by classical music, and by the European jazz tradition to which he himself has contributed.
