(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
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...
bourgeois and bourgeosie - People or values or behaviors typical of the middle class. All those who are bourgeois comprise a group called the "bourgeoisie." Most members of this group are executives and professionals. The upper middle class is known as the "haute bourgeoisie." These terms appe...
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 ...
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 ...
the word interior started to be used specifically in order to designate the inside of an environment such as a building. Even then, its use was often limited to the description of domestic space, and in particular it would often be utilized to describe the Victorian bourgeoisie home (Rice ...
(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 ...
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 ...