It is a humorous political critique, aimed squarely at the then ruling party Partido Revolucionario Institucional ( PRI ) and its paramilitary caciques, at a time when freedom of speech in politics was highly restricted.

Luther's complaints against the book carried past the point of scholarly critique and may reflect Luther's antisemitism, which is disputed, such as in the biography of Luther by Derek Wilson, which points out that Luther's anger at the Jews was not at their race but at their theology.

The real statement was a critique of the Israeli government and its treatment of the Palestinian people.

As a young man, he was influenced by the romantic movement and medievalism, and developed a devastating critique of industrialism.

Kant's notion of critique has been associated with the disestablishment of false, unprovable, or dogmatic philosophical, social, and political beliefs, because Kant's critique of reason involved the critique of dogmatic theological and metaphysical ideas and was intertwined with the enhancement of ethical autonomy and the Enlightenment critique of superstition and irrational authority.

As such, critical theory was left, in Jürgen Habermas ’ words, without " anything in reserve to which it might appeal ; and when the forces of production enter into a baneful symbiosis with the relations of production that they were supposed to blow wide open, there is no longer any dynamism upon which critique could base its hope.

Her critique primarily stems from her belief that Jean de Meun was purposely slandering women through the debated text.

In his critique of the theology of Clement of Alexandria, Photius in his Myriobiblon held that Clement ’ s views reflected a quasi-docetic view of the nature of Christ, writing that Clement " He hallucinates that the Word was not incarnate but only seems to be.

Stidham, who was later elected to a municipal judgeship, has written a detailed critique of what he asserts are major police errors and misconceptions during their investigation.

Mayr was an outspoken defender of the scientific method, and one known to sharply critique science on the edge.

Sullivan was in the habit of calling Sylvia after every program to get her immediate critique.

" Their critique of him was based principally on his not being strong enough in his criticism of Luther, not seeing the dangers of a vernacular Bible and dabbling in dangerous scriptural criticism that weakened the Church's arguments against Arianism and other doctrines.

Orwell's first published article in his home country, A Farthing Newspaper, was a critique of the new French daily the Ami de Peuple.

Handel was only partly successful with his performances of English Oratorio on mythical and biblical themes, but when he arranged a performance of Messiah to benefit the Foundling Hospital ( 1750 ) the critique ended.

* Gillian Rose ( born 1962 ), most famous for her critique: Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge ( 1993 ), which was one of the first moves towards a development of feminist geography.

" Benjamin's friend and colleague Gershom Scholem would argue that Benjamin's critique of historical materialism was so definitive that, as Mark Lilla would write, " nothing remains of historical materialism [...] but the term itself.

The documentation includes the initial request for change, its approval, the priority assigned to it, the implementation, testing and back out plans, the results of the change review board critique, the date / time the change was implemented, who implemented it, and whether the change was implemented successfully, failed or postponed.

Roberts intended his comments as typical of scientific experimentation, rather than artistic critique ; still, Pei was frustrated.

" Dembski's critique of this position is that phylogenetically, the TTSS makes an unlikely precursor to the flagellum given that TTSS is found in a narrow range of bacteria which makes it seem to be a late innovation, whereas flagella are widespread throughout many bacterial groups, which implies it was an early innovation.

Hegel called his philosophy " absolute " idealism in contrast to the " subjective idealism " of Berkeley and the " transcendental idealism " of Kant and Fichte, which were not based on a critique of the finite and a dialectical philosophy of history as Hegel's idealism was.

Reviews varied at the time and since but whatever the critique, the play represents Cocteau's state of mind and feelings towards his actors at the time: on the one hand, he wanted to spoil and please them ; on the other, he was fed up by their diva antics and was ready for revenge.

" Thus, Poole's critique might better be understood as aimed at Calef, Mather's contemporary, who saw fit to ascribe to him, and his influence, the largest portion of blame.

The director described the production as a populist critique of modern American society, aimed at showing up the disparities between rich and poor.

" In the American Monthly Review magazine, Richard York and the sociologist Brett Clark praised the book's thematic concentration, saying that " rather than attempt a grand critique of all ' scientific ' efforts aimed at justifying social inequalities, Gould performs a well-reasoned assessment of the errors underlying a specific set of theories and empirical claims.

Social constructionism ( SC ), on the other hand, mainly developed as a form of a critique, aimed to transform the oppressing effects of the social meaning-making processes.

He aimed his critique at the polytheistic religious views of earlier Greek poets and of his own contemporaries: " Homer and Hesiod " one fragment states, " have attributed to the gods all sorts of things that are matters of reproach and censure among men: theft, adultery, and mutual deception.

Initially outlined by Max Horkheimer in his Traditional and Critical Theory ( 1937 ), critical theory may be defined as a self-conscious social critique that is aimed at change and emancipation through enlightenment, and does not cling dogmatically to its own doctrinal assumptions.

Long-time collaborator Simon Grainger was an unofficial member of Nitzer Ebb and responsible for the austere look and feel of this visual aspect of the band, which aimed to provoke reaction, to critique, and even to poke fun at such stern stark powerful imagery.

" while simultaneously generating social comment and critique aimed at Orwell's own ( real world ) contemporary society.

Eliot Weinberger commented on the incident, in a critique aimed at Trungpa and Allen Ginsberg published in The Nation on April 19, 1980.

Accordingly, much of her writing is aimed at a debunking of, or an attempt at critique of, extreme political views, as she sees them.

His experiences at Hyde's, where he worked a thirteen-hour day and slept in a dormitory with other apprentices, later inspired his novels The Wheels of Chance and Kipps, which portray the life of a draper's apprentice as well as providing a critique of society's distribution of wealth.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

In a dystopian critique of rationalisation, Weber notes that modern society is a product of an individualistic drive of the Reformation, yet at the same time, the society created in this process is less and less welcoming of individualism.

In critic Kurt Loder's description, the Sex Pistols purveyed a " calculated, arty nihilism, the Clash were unabashed idealists, proponents of a radical left-wing social critique of a sort that reached back at least to ... Woody Guthrie in the 1940s ".

Contemporaneously with the rise of analytic ethics in Anglo-American thought, in Europe several new lines of philosophy directed at critique of existing societies arose between the 1950s and 1980s.

* Socialism's fundamental principles are centered on a critique of this concept, stating, among other things, that the cost of defending property is higher than the returns from private property ownership, and that, even when property rights encourage their holders to develop their property or generate wealth, they do so only for their own benefit, which may not coincide with benefit to other people or to society at large.

Richard Nisbett, another psychologist who had also commented at the time, later included an amplified version of his critique as part of the book Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count ( 2009 ).

Anticolonial revolutionary writers in the Négritude movement of Martinique, a French colony at the time, took up Surrealism as a revolutionary method-a critique of European culture and a radical subjective.

** Italian Language and Literature, decided at national level and the same for all examinees: either a text comprehension and critique, or the writing of an essay

Elliot Stein of The Village Voice saw the film as an ardent critique of American involvement in Vietnam, arguing that it " was not set in Transylvania, but Pennsylvania – this was Middle America at war, and the zombie carnage seemed a grotesque echo of the conflict then raging in Vietnam ".

At the same time, however, and owing to both the presence of another prominent sociologist at the Institute, Karl Mannheim, as well as the methodological problem posed by treating objects-like " musical material "-as ciphers of social contradictions, Adorno was compelled to abandon any notion of " value-free " sociology in favor of a form of ideology critique which held on to an idea of truth.

Thus, the party's platforms and rhetoric critique any corporate influence and control over government, media, and American society at large.

Extremely witty, he is seen as a critique of Victorian culture at the end of the century, espousing a view of indulgent hedonism.

The fictional journalist Epicene Wildeblood at one point is required to critique a book uncannily similar to The Illuminatus!

It also won the " Prix de la critique " at the Angoulême International Comics Festival ( France ) in 2001.