(royalty, politicians and so forth). At its worse, this period saw theatres and shops frequented by members of the bourgeoisie targeted. Propaganda by the deed began in France after the 20,000-plus deaths due to the French state’s brutal suppression of the Paris Commune, in which many ...
Some years ago, I slightly knew the art critic Leo Steinberg, who happened to be the son of I.N. Steinberg, the first People’s Commissar of Justice in the Bolshevik regime. By way of Leo, I received a copy of his father’s book,In the Workshop of the Revolution, which describes S...
There are two persons who are very closely relatedto Tess’s fate. She, a daughter of poor peasants had been reduced to a wagelaborer, so Alec—thevicious capitalist power of the Victorian Times and Clare—the representative of liberalbourgeoisie killed her cruelly and without mercy. It seemed...
Although the bourgeoisie of Weimar Germany urge the latter, those who appreciate that the ‘essence of technics’ is identical with the ‘soul of man’ will see – acutely, keenly – that a short life, ‘active, fighting, and charged’ affords our only true satisfaction. Man and Technics is...
He also notes that it is a word that describes "how cultures are structured in ways that enable the group holding power to have the maximum control with the minimum of conflict" (p. 8). Thus, Schiro seems to be saying that ideology is an epistemology that is shared through the ...
He launched the most cutting attacks of any writer against Americas middle class culture. He invented the wordbooboisie, combining the two words bourgeoisie and booby (an awkward, foolish person). Henry Louis Mencken In caustic, witty essays, he derided (mock) the institution which supported ...
Since the future ethic Sorel has in mind is based on the distinct feelings of the workers about the sublimity of their creative endeavours, it is conditioned by an aesthetic that powerfully moves them to morally surpass the ruling un-productive class: ‘the sublime is dead in the bourgeoisie ...
Robinson Crusoe is a representative of the English bourgeoisie at the earlier stages of its development. He is most adventurous, practical and exact, always religious and at the same time mindful of his own profit. ―Master‖ is the first word Friday learns from Robinson. Here lies colonization...
Practised first and most intensively by the bourgeoisie, domesticity became the talisman of bourgeois culture, particularly in painting and novels. (Tosh 1999: 4) In a similar vein, historian Ute Frevert speaks of the development of a "bürgerlichen Gefühlshabitus" (2011: 14). According to F...
(believers, adherents) ofthe traditions that obsessed her, she was manifestly not immune from a belief in “the reality ofthe unreal.” Several passages describe supersti-tions and esoteric rituals among Euro-Cuban guajiros (country peasants) and members ofthe bourgeoisie alike in condescending ...