Some critics, however, perceived "Art" as the polemic of a closet philistine who was mocking modernism, if not modernity.
Moreover, writing for the emperor's eyes "encouraged precision in moral, social and political categories, but it did not motivate an equal fastidiousness with regard to the foundations of knowledge"; and at the same time, in China, "overt, reciprocal polemic of a kind that might have pushed epistemological problems to the fore was rare".
His Facetiae (1438 52), a collection of humorous, often indecent tales, contains vigorous satires on monks, clerics, and rival scholars such as Francesco Filelfo, Guarino, and Lorenzo Valla, with whom Poggio engaged in some of the most notorious and vituperative polemics of a polemical age.
Literary polemics of a high order were employed against the cultural imperialism of the French in Gotthold Lessing's Hamburgische Dramaturgie (1767 69; Hamburg Dramaturgy).
It is almost impossible to imagine now any circumstances in which a publishing house which issued nothing but political polemics of a very specific flavour could attract anything but a very small audience.
Threaded through Twitter, the social graph added context to the polemic of the post, a thin layer of group dynamics that went beyond the sizzle of products and personalities to the underlying zeitgeist of the time.
To him, a map is a "social construction," a "thick text," a "redescription of reality," a "silent arbiter of power," a "polemic," a "manifesto for a set of beliefs about the world," or a "text of power".
The comments below include some pretty polarised opinions on this piece, falling into a typical new-music polemic, of "It sounds like a monkey throwing itself on the keyboard" versus "If you don't get this, you're a philistine".
(And this is one of Ferneyhough's "simpler" scores, by the way). The comments below include some pretty polarised opinions on this piece, falling into a typical new-music polemic, of "It sounds like a monkey throwing itself on the keyboard" versus "If you don't get this, you're a philistine".
This most public of Palestinians is the master not of reductive polemic but of a profoundly lyric imagination, one that draws together the textures of daily life, physical beauty - whether of landscape or of women - longing, myth and history.
From the start, they deny that their book is a polemic of right against left.
