Itself an inversion of Moliere's "The Misanthrope," the classic account of a societal truth-teller who can't help but spread bile, "The Philanthropist" considers how it might feel to be maligned for being agreeable.
The artist, who was the first winner of the Whitney Museum's Bucksbaum Award, is at his best in tiny, brief, digitally manipulated videos that strip down or isolate found sequences from film or television -- most effectively, basketball games -- to reveal both darker societal truths and unexpected resonances with traditional art.
Under the influence of societal half-truths, I assumed that merely reflected who lived in poverty.
Like Paul Krugman ("Karl Rove's America," column, July 15), I have been horrified at how the Bush administration has made a victim of truth in our societal and political discourse.
In terms of societal reconciliation, it is claimed that truth commissions reintegrate victims in a number of ways.
Precisely because we seek to pursue truth rather than to mirror societal norms, we will often be focal points of dissent.
The fight illuminates a larger truth about open-source companies: their societal and strategic importance far exceeds their financial value as operating businesses.
His book takes important steps toward the development of a more comprehensive conception, in which truth, intersecting with goodness, calls for societal transformation.
Instead, "truth" refers to the economic, political, societal, and historical fruitfulness of thought in practice.
"Any neutral observer could be led to believe Scotland is on the verge of societal disintegration, yet nothing could be further from the truth".
