Word: humanisme
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The Self. Like some pharaoh taking his goods with him into the winding darkness below the sand, Picasso in dying has removed an idea of artistic activity from the West-an idea of which he was the last great exponent. It has to do with a passionate omnivorousness, a scale...
One of the most critical disturbances is the threat to an old and honored dichotomy. In the theocentric world of the Middle Ages, man lived in a holistic universe, with heaven above and earth below embraced in one divine economy. But the aggressive humanism of the Renaissance and the mechanistic...
To humanists and others who believe that both man and society are perfectible, Lévi-Strauss extends small comfort. "Humanism has failed," he believes. "It has lent itself to excusing and justifying all kinds of horrors. It has misunderstood man. It has tried to cut him off from all...
The application of these virtues was easier when Harvard was a religiously monolithic community. But in a community of pluralism, secularity, and ethical humanism a minister must tread cautiously, Gomes observed.
The worst thing you can say about Marcel Ophuls is that whatever his politics, artistically he is a bourgeois humanist--mawkish, inconclusive, unclear, visually universalizing the particular. At the same time, his films show the power of that bourgeois humanism to move into an extra-political realm in which each...