Word: pantheism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...does express a cloudy sort of religion, claiming vague connections with both Christianity and the major faiths of the East (New Agers like to say that Jesus spent 18 years in India absorbing Hinduism and the teachings of Buddha), plus an occasional dab of pantheism and sorcery. The underlying faith is a lack of faith in the orthodoxies of rationalism, high technology, routine living, spiritual law-and-order. Somehow, the New Agers believe, there must be some secret and mysterious shortcut or alternative path to happiness and health. And nobody ever really dies...
...that have rarely or never been seen outside Germany. It would be hard, for instance, to find a better epitome of the expressionist vision of relationships between humans and nature than Kirchner's Striding into the Sea, 1912, with its naked lovers swept up in a kind of decorative pantheism, at one with the flouncing breakers and sharply writhing sand dunes of the Baltic shore...
...Death to the industrial-minded Communists. Long live the Kantian Liberal-moralists...and Led Zeppelin. Pantheism...
...critical breakthrough, attributing the traditional "prejudice" surrounding Champollion's famous discovery to glamorizing myth. Instead, he explores at length the Occidental fascination with "the Hindu soul... something like a separate sex." Schwab's retrospective vision is itself a richly dense landscape with illuminating details such as Shelley's "pantheism" and Leibnitz's "Oriental lobe." Schwab invokes, with impressive authority, a wide ranging cast of intellectual and artistic figures from Chateaubriand and Hugo to Herder and Schopenhauer, in an imaginative attempt to reconstruct the vivid mood of self-awakening...
From where does the idea of a world of likes come? In part from a belief in universal brotherhood (a belief that is parodied, however, when one pretends that the ideal already exists). In part from a trendy ecological pantheism with its misty notions of the oneness of those sharing this lonely planet. In part from the Enlightenment belief in a universal human nature, a slippery modern creation that for all its universality manages in every age to take on a decidedly middle-class look. For the mirror-image fantasy derives above all from the coziness of middle-class life...