Word: objecting
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Lonergan's method is his own, but he clearly owes a debt to the phenomenologists, particularly to German Philosopher Edmund Husserl. For the phenomenologist, the material evidence of a perceived object is screened by the dynamic (and very personal) phenomenon of the act of knowing. Husserl developed this into the idea of "horizon" - the vastness or narrowness of the world a man perceives. For Husserl, a man's horizon is limited by his per spective: his environment, his loves and fears, his interests and prejudices...
Some of his critics object that such earnest expressions of Christian love are all too rare in Lonergan's work-that he is too rational, that the dimensions of feeling are absent. Lonergan replies simply that love is already at the heart of the matter. "Being-in-love is a fact. It's a first principle. Being-in-love doesn't need any justification, just as you don't explain God, God is the ultimate explanation. Love is something that proves itself...
There may be an explanation. Wadleigh claims to have shot more film than any other twenty-seven year old alive, and perhaps if he's spent less time behind the camera he'd have a better sense of structure. For Woodstock is an object lesson in how important formal control remains in even the most straightforward of shooting situations...
...These young photographers are more concerned with the photograph as an object or material thing than as an imitative record of what is seen," says Curator Peter Bunnell, who organized the show. "Their aim is to expand the notion of 'making a photograph' from the illusionistic space of the two-dimensional picture into the real space of three-dimensional objects." In the best pieces, the extra dimension of space also adds a mind-teasing new element of meaning...
...object to lowered standards to allow entrance to near moron colored...