Word: sensualists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deeper unease connected with a crisis of values. It also has its political aspects. Sex and politics have always been linked, but the connection can be carried too far ?as was demonstrated for all time by the Marquis de Sade, who was more of a revolutionary than a sensualist, and pushed both roles to madness. Today, many of the young (or would-be young) use sexual display or obscene language quite deliberately as shock weapons of protest against "the Establishment." At the same time, those who are affronted by the new license may produce a backlash that could lead...
False Messiah. As Galileo, Tony van Bridge is far from the ravenous sensualist of thought that Brecht had in mind, a man as avid for "a new idea as for an old wine." He nibbles fastidiously at a part that calls for gorging. This glutton of the mind is an intellectual mercenary. He will retract theories, integrity and self-respect so long as he is paid off with his life. Knowledge is an appetite for him and not an unstained banner of loyalty to scientific inquiry or a mandate to kill the belief in God. He is the typical Brechtian...
LYRICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS, by Albert Camus. Camus was a sensualist and humanist who found inspiration in the sun-soaked shores of his native Algeria. His great perception flavors this new collection of early essays, which are surprisingly mystical and serene...
LYRICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS, by Albert Camus. Camus was a sensualist and humanist who found inspiration on the sun-soaked shores of his native Algeria. His great poetic perception flavors this new collection of early essays, which are surprisingly mystical and serene...
...noted as the intellectual Parisian humanist. He strove with a stoiclucidity to reaffirm man's nobility in a warring age that seemed to defy that nobility. Actually, he was also a sensualist, a "Black Romantic" who found ecstatic revelations on the sun-soaked shores of his native Algeria. This poetic sensualism flavors Lyrical and Critical Essays, now collected and published for the first time in English...