Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final sentence Cohn writes that "[t]he survival of the Jews in America and the modern world depends on the ability to live in a secular society that bears little resemblance to a kosher deli." The ability to live in a secular society is a requirement for the survival of any person. For Jews to survive, however, that is not the only requirement...
...survival of Jews in America and the modern world depends on the ability to live in a secular society that bears little resemblence to a kosher deli...
...Philip IV of Spain, would be perfect. Not only did he paint the best official portrait of the 17th century -- the head of the wary, coarse, cunning old Pope Innocent X, in the Galleria Doria-Pamphili collection in Rome -- but he also made what is perhaps the greatest nonmythical, secular painting in all art history: Las Meninas, in the Prado. Neither is in the wonderful show of 38 paintings by Velazquez, about half lent by the Prado, which opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City this week. Nor should they be, since such things cannot...
Fukuyama has no illusions that the end of history represents the beginning of secular paradise. In fact, he sees it as a "sad time," when ideological struggles that called for "daring, courage, imagination" will be replaced by the "endless solving of technical problems." He worries about the cultural banality that pervades liberal societies obsessed with consumerism, and notes that nationalism and religious fundamentalism continue to appeal to many Third World peoples. While it is impossible to rule out the emergence of new ideologies, or indeed of entirely new political systems, Fukuyama argues that for the foreseeable future it will become...
Questions abound, including: Philosophically, can a secular symbol be "desecrated...