Peter Euben's Platonic Noise brings up several problems with what Euben calls the "instrumentalization" of literary study; among other things, Euben discusses "boredom" and "relevance.". From Wordnik.com. [Relating] Reference
My editing and instrumentalization are what decide how successful the poem will be. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
It's passivity facing instrumentalization that could become a tremendous risk for all European citizens. From Wordnik.com. [Pepe Escobar: Letter from Islamophobistan] Reference
This goes to show that apart from instrumentalization, music has hardly changed at all over the past 250 years. From Wordnik.com. [Mara Siegler: Violinist David Garrett: Breaking Down Barriers to Make Classical Music Accessible for Younger Generations] Reference
In that respect, the trace of the Good is always present within Being, as a possibility that something other than consumption or instrumentalization may take place. From Wordnik.com. [Emmanuel Levinas] Reference
Is it possible to speak of an “instrumentalization” of the Uskoks by Ottoman diplomats or was their anger concerning Uskok raids real and without underlying political motivation?. From Wordnik.com. [The Uskok �Problem� and Habsburg, Venetian, and Ottoman Relations at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Galileo in Krisis, Adorno and Horkheimer (Dialektik der Aufklärung, 1942) saw in Baconism the typical animus of modern science, indistinguishable from technology, intent upon the exploitation of nature and total instrumentalization. From Wordnik.com. [BACONIANISM] Reference
In other words, the fact that Schelling attacks idealism's instrumentalization of nature in bodily terms reminds philosophy that the body is not one object among many, but precisely a surface that is narcissistically invested with significance. From Wordnik.com. [Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy] Reference
However, the most effective way to constrain these leaders at the current juncture is by proving through example that they are feeding their own citizens lies about the intentions of the United States, while exposing their instrumentalization of anti-Americanism for what it really is. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Amsterdam: Why Obama Is a Nightmare for Ahmadinejad and Ch��vez] Reference
Philosophy in the twentieth century (Heidegger, the Frankfurt School, deconstruction) has shown, at least, that the universality of concepts and the necessity carried by transcendental arguments are simply not sufficient to prevent the triumph of ends-rationality and instrumentalization. From Wordnik.com. [Emmanuel Levinas] Reference
There's a lot to like about the exhibition, and a lot to dislike as well—I'm a firm believer in the educational value of exhibitions like this one, but there should always been mixed feelings about the instrumentalization and commodification of the human body, especially when those bodies are coming to us from post-colonial spaces. From Wordnik.com. [Gerry Canavan] Reference
However, it does not seem that those who raise the question of the instrumentalization of women's wombs are ipso facto talking nonsense, even if, ultimately, the procedure to which they object or about which they have concerns is morally justified, or the survival of certain embryonic human beings justifies resorting to a procedure one would otherwise not be justified in undertaking. From Wordnik.com. [The difficult issue of embryonic adoption] Reference
Although Pacioli was fascinated with such processes of mathematical and geometrical embodiment as stereometry and stereotomy,183 the friar's interest in the divine proportion (or "golden mean") did not center on its instrumentalization. 184 An instructor of theology, Pacioli was less concerned with translating the divine into the worldly than with transporting human intellect — by way of the senses — to contemplate mysteries beyond human comprehension. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
"Unfriending reflects the instrumentalization and commodifying of friendship on Facebook,". From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
It is true that for a while now we have been witnesses to the instrumentalization of Chomsky in many directions. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends] Reference
Robert Glasser, the SCHR chair, agreed that "Amos must advocate for the independence of humanitarian action and resist the instrumentalization of relief or development to foreign policy ends.". From Wordnik.com. [ReliefWeb - Headlines] Reference
Sharon Hayes's project In the New Future, 2005, is the recognition that public space must be contested in the face of its instrumentalization by cultural institutions and the corporate sector alike. From Wordnik.com. [Art Knowledge News] Reference
But it is probable that a different sort of music teaching altogether -- a teaching that would aim, not at instrumentalization, but at intelligent appreciation -- might find a place in a complete educational scheme. From Wordnik.com. [Mankind in the Making] Reference
But it is probable that a different sort of music teaching altogether — a teaching that would aim, not at instrumentalization, but at intelligent appreciation — might find a place in a complete educational scheme. From Wordnik.com. [Mankind in the Making] Reference
Patron, announced that outside interference and instrumentalization of minorities in Nineveh is coming to an end, and expressed willingness to establish a mechanism, including all elements of civil society, to defend minority rights. From Wordnik.com. [Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude] Reference
The driving force of US Zionism is the subordination of US civil society organizations and the instrumentalization of the US military and economic resources to service Israeli colonial expansion and projections of power in the Middle East. From Wordnik.com. [iToot Stream] Reference
There’s a lot to like about the exhibition, and a lot to dislike as well—I’m a firm believer in the educational value of exhibitions like this one, but there should always been mixed feelings about the instrumentalization and commodification of the human body, especially when those bodies are coming to us from post-colonial spaces. From Wordnik.com. [June « 2007 « Gerry Canavan] Reference
This modern instrumentalization of the Holocaust for political advantage is ethically disreputable and politically imprudent. ". From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
The modes of remembering and interpreting Nazi medicine, their historicity and instrumentalization in different stages of post-war German medicine, and in the international discourse on biomedical ethics are the topic of this conference, which is part of a research project "Medical Narratives on National socialist 'euthanasia': Professional identities and ethics between politics of memory and historiography, ca. 1945 - 2000" in the context of the Coordinated Research Program "Cultures of Memory" (Sonderforschungsbereich. From Wordnik.com. [Veranstaltungen - idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft] Reference
"instrumentalization of the body" for the "actualization of the marital union"?. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Princetonian, 2010-02-12] Reference
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