We can summarize that in his polemic works Crescas has a polemical goal, and in his philosophical works he has a philosophical goal.[10] The Hebrew translator explains that the reason for this divergence was that the philosophical works were written before the polemical ones, but after writing Or Hashem, Crescas returned to Aristotelian science.
Christie's contemporary-art department relishes such polemic works of art.
This was also a period of many schisms and the founding of monasteries in Śaivism and Vaiṣṇavism, which led to many sectarian and polemic works.
His screenplays, which he always writes himself, have a sense of purpose about them that only polemic works of art can have.
On Saturday, Ms. Faithfull offered her usual anthem, John Lennon's brainy polemic "Working Class Hero"; Ms. Taylor echoed the sentiment in the far more plain-spoken Willie Dixon stomper, "Big Boss Man".
Polemic works: Mostradorde Justicia is the earliest and most important work of those writings of Abner that have survived.
The reason for this contradiction is probably that the aim of Crescas in his polemic works is to convince Jews not to convert to Christianity, and Jewish apostates to return to Judaism.
"Right to Exist," by Yaacov Lozowick, the director of archives at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Museum, and "The Case for Israel," by Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School, are polemics, not works of scholarship.
It's a provocative idea (and one that's posited even more starkly in Linda Hirshman's 2006 polemic, "Get to Work").
There's a strain of feminist argument, of course, — offered, for instance, by Linda Hirshman in her recent polemic "Get To Work" — that such maximization is the primary thing that matters, and that women should subordinate every other good (like, say, having more than one child) to the pursuit of financial self-sufficiency.
The book, if they were to be believed, was less a biography than a polemic, less a work of art than a collection of senile gossip".
