The fantastical air of his invented non-place, with its bizarre social mores and customs, shouldn't blind us to the very immediate and polemical purpose it served - this was a fiction intended to effect immediate changes in the realm of the real.
A summation of new scientific and technological knowledge and, by that very fact, a radically polemical enterprise, the Encyclopédie is the epitome of the Enlightenment, disseminating practical information to improve the human lot, reduce theological superstition, and, in Diderot's words from his key article "Encyclopédie," "change the common way of thinking".
Jahrhunderts] and [Bent Corydon's L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?] it is extremely polemical and very much tries to pull Hubbard to pieces".
They often include links to other Weblogs, and can cover subjects from the very personal to the highly polemical.
Opinionated but never, ever polemical.
As the book nears its polemical climax, he deals very well with places – Switzerland, Uruguay, the US states of Colorado and Washington, and particularly Portugal – where liberalising measures have pointed to a way out of the drug wars' current stupidities.
I don't seek to be polemical, but I speak of very tough things that may be unpleasant for other members of the family who try to hide everything negative to preserve Picasso's image.
This book was probably one of the more philosophical works of the Jewish critics of Christianity.[9] Interestingly, Crescas utilizes in his polemical book some of the very Aristotelian opinions that he himself critiques in his philosophical oeuvre Or Hashem.
This edition includes as Vol. 1 (Pufendorf 1996) the extant correspondence which, though limited in comparison to other early moderns like Leibniz, is nonetheless very useful, especially in conjunction with the polemical essays in Eris Scandica (Pufendorf 2002b), which add biographical and literary details.
