Sentence examples for philosophical preoccupations from inspiring English sources
His work retains recurring notes of critical protest, but these are driven less by the conditions of life in postwar Spain than by general ethical and philosophical preoccupations".
Though the novel is a kind of erotic thriller, it has philosophical preoccupations, a feature emphasized by the Native American Anishinabek stories that punctuate it.
By the early 1950s Berlin's central beliefs had emerged out of the confluence of his philosophical preoccupations, historical studies, and political and moral commitments and anxieties; and his major ideas were either already fully formed, or developing.
The structures of these still-life portraits express Sartre's primary philosophical preoccupations: bad faith and the flight from time, radical freedom and the sense of one's own emptiness, and embodiment and identification with the look of the Other.
Technical, because on subjects such as (say) war-making, the general should be consulted about the accuracy of Homer's description thereof; philosophical because both the method of assessing the whole (the "Socratic method") and the comprehensive claims about the truth made by interpreter and poet, are properly philosophical preoccupations for Plato.
The Experimental line allows him to explore his philosophical preoccupations through clothes.
Indeed, storytelling itself remains a central concern in the author's work, in both his taste for willfully complicated narratives and his philosophical preoccupation with the ways in which subjectivity acts as a distorting prism for our apprehension of the world.
For Peirce, developing a thoroughgoing theory of signs was a central philosophical and intellectual preoccupation.
His poetic works are noted for their classical style and their preoccupation with philosophical and political issues.
Since then, he has been creating a unique oeuvre that is based on his preoccupation with philosophical, sociological, and artistic literature.
The settings were often deceptively banal, for her deep preoccupations were poetic and philosophical, an exploration perhaps of the nature of the demonic, the problem of evil, or (again and again) the perversion of power.
