Word: bourgeoise
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These seemingly diffuse attitudes find their unity in bourgeois fantasy life, which is perhaps the point. Skinner is in many ways a bourgeois moralist. The excitement of Kinkade and her friends upon reading about Walden Two (it was "everything I had ever wanted," she gushes) can best be understood by...
Kaiser thinks that Europe has undergone something of a cultural revolution in recent years, stemming from the student rebellions that culminated in May 1968. But that revolution, said Kaiser, merely challenged old bourgeois values without replacing them with anything new. In reaction against anarchy, people are gradually returning to the...
Mitterrand, 56, has been in and out of eleven Cabinet posts and has lost one parliamentary election since his entry into the bear pit of French politics in 1946. Yet in the presidential election of 1965 he amassed an extraordinary 45% of the popular vote, against none other than Charles...
This enables us to see how thoroughly bourgeois the assumptions of even political radicals are. For fight it as we do, the belief that personality transcends politics is tied up with the very basis of our thinking. We could no more discard that belief than we could our sexual urges...
In his rebuttal, Paul Gallagher, a member of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, termed zero growth "a form of radical pessimism around which bourgeois thinkers are grouping."