Gobineau's " influence on the development of racial theory has been exaggerated and his ideas have been routinely misconstrued ".

In the Chapter " Vision " within his Book " Hitler " he writes that the influence of Gobineau on Hitler can be easily seen and that Gobineaus ideas were used by Hitler in simplified form for demagogic purposes: " Significantly, Hitler simplified Gobineau's elaborate doctrine until it became demagogically usable and offered a set of plausible explanations for all the discontents, anxieties, and crises of the contemporary scene.

Such exhibitions were attempts to illustrate and prove in the same movement the validity of scientific racism, which first formulation may be found in Arthur de Gobineau's An Essay on the Inequality of Human Races ( 1853 – 55 ).

Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and " African savages " at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans ( consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch ) were at the top ; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans ( consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i. e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the upper middle ranks ; Slavs ( Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants.

Although Arthur de Gobineau's An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races ( 1853 – 1855 ) constitutes the first elaboration of " biological racism ", as opposed to Henri de Boulainvilliers ' anti-patriotic and anti-nationalist racism, Hannah Arendt traces the emergence of modern racism as an ideology to the Boers ', starting in particular during the Great Trek in the first half of the 19th century, and qualifies it as an " ideological weapon for imperialism ".

Nott translated Arthur de Gobineau's An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races ( 1853 – 1855 ), a founding work of racial segregationism that made three main divisions between races, based not on colour but on climatic conditions and geographic location, and privileged the " Aryan " race.

When the Nazis adopted Gobineau's theories, they were forced to edit his work extensively to make it conform to their views, much as they did in the case of Nietzsche.

The fin-de-siècle outlook was influenced by various intellectual developments, including Darwinian biology ; Wagnerian aesthetics ; Arthur de Gobineau's racialism ; Gustave Le Bon's psychology ; and the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Henri Bergson.

Gobineau's father was a government official and staunch royalist, and his mother, Anne-Louise Magdeleine de Gercy, was the daughter of a royal tax official.

Hitler and Nazism borrowed much of Gobineau's ideology, though Gobineau himself was not anti-Semitic, and may even be characterised as philo-Semitic.

As far as I am concerned there is continuous piling up of evidence that the creative fresh ideas which are needed in the world are going to be found by educated women unafraid to break traditions.

These ideas were found in a number of Kabbalistic works from the 13th century, and also among many mystics in the late 16th century.

Even so, his ideas helped to found one of the first adult education centers in America, and provided the foundation for future generations of liberal education.

In his autobiography, he says that the only religious ideas that appealed to him were those to be found in Hindu philosophical thought.

Historian Kenneth Macksey found Liddell Hart's original letters to Guderian, in the General's papers, requesting that Guderian give him credit for " impressing him " with his ideas of armoured warfare.

Signs of this can be found in Blackstone ’ s Commentaries on the Laws of England, and Roman law ideas regained importance with the revival of academic law schools in the 19th century.

Early Christians found themselves confronted with a set of new concepts and ideas relating to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, as well the notions of salvation and redemption, and had to use a new set of terms, images and ideas to deal with them.

Himself a former Sandinista who had held several high posts in the government, he had resigned apruptly in 1981 and defected, believing that the newly found power had corrupted the Sandinista's original ideas.

The most complete coverage of Engelbart's bootstrapping ideas can be found in Boosting Our Collective IQ, by Douglas C. Engelbart, 1995.

Diamond Dogs ( 1974 ), parts of which found him heading towards soul and funk, was the product of two distinct ideas: a musical based on a wild future in a post-apocalyptic city, and setting George Orwell's 1984 to music.

Biographer David Buckley writes, " The essence of Bowie's contribution to popular music can be found in his outstanding ability to analyse and select ideas from outside the mainstream — from art, literature, theatre and film — and to bring them inside, so that the currency of pop is constantly being changed.

He found that they differ in understanding the basis of the problem and the ideas in the problem.

Some groups see the clitoris as dangerous, capable of killing a man if his penis touches it, or a baby if the head comes into contact with it during birth, though Amnesty cautions that ideas about the power of the clitoris can be found elsewhere.

* St Vergilius of Salzburg ( c. 700 – 784 ), in the middle of the eighth century, discussed or taught some geographical or cosmographical ideas which St Boniface found sufficiently objectionable that he complained about them to Pope Zachary.

Stafford was greatly influenced by the ideas on mythology of Joseph Campbell, and echoes of Campbell's work are to be found in many aspects of Glorantha ; for instance the story of the " God Learners " can be seen as an exercise on the implications of Campbell's idea of a unifying monomyth, and the story of Prince Argrath an exploration of Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

Other contemporaries, however, found the first movement especially dark, and Reinhold Brinkmann, in a study of Symphony No. 2 in relation to 19th century ideas of melancholy, has published a revealing letter from Brahms to the composer and conductor Vinzenz Lachner in which Brahms confesses to the melancholic side of his nature and comments on specific features of the movement that reflect this.

This support was important as Harrison is reputed to have found it difficult to communicate his ideas in a coherent manner.

The design theories of Adolf Loos found resonance with Mies, particularly the ideas of eradication of the superficial and unnecessary, replacing elaborate applied ornament with the straightforward display of materials and forms.

Mies also admired his ideas about the nobility that could be found in the anonymity of modern life.

The ideas preceding truth tables have been found in both Frege and Bertrand Russell whereas the actual ' tabular structure ' ( i. e. being formed as a table ) is generally credited to either Ludwig Wittgenstein, Emil Post or both ( independently of one another ).

It concludes that the closest parallels with Isaiah's description of the king of Babylon as a fallen morning star cast down from heaven are to be found not in any lost Canaanite and other myths but in traditional ideas of the Jewish people themselves, echoed in the Biblical account of the fall of Adam and Eve, cast out of God's presence for wishing to be as God, and the picture in of the " gods " and " sons of the Most High " destined to die and fall.

Panslavist ideas were prevalent in Masoch's literary work, and he found a particular interest in depicting picturesque types among the various ethnicities that inhabited Galicia.

From St. Augustine of Hippo's City of God through St. Thomas More's Utopia major Christian writers defended ideas that socialists found agreeable.

After the seventeenth century the audience ceased to be an organic community to which these ideas and their attendant habits of figurative language would be natural or immediately familiar.

In earlier years the band had criticized neo-Nazi skinheads for trying to ruin the punk scene, but just as big a problem was the increasing popularity of thrash metal and stereotypical macho " post-1982 hardcore " which brought the group ( and their genre ) an audience that had little to do with the ideas / ideals they stood for.

In early 2000 Engelbart produced, with volunteers and sponsors, what was called The Unfinished Revolution – II, also known as the Engelbart Colloquium at Stanford University, to document and publicize his work and ideas to a larger audience ( live, and online ).

His ideas of the future had a remarkable degree of realism and immediacy, striking a chord with an American audience slowly recovering from the Great Depression and that was longing for prosperity.

It featured many new ideas for handheld consoles and was aimed at an older target audience, sporting PDA-style features and functions such as a touch screen and stylus.

Part of the war motif could be a metaphor for the poet in a competitive struggle with the reader in order to push his own vision and ideas upon his audience.

This publishing effort made the ideas of culturally oriented theorists available to an undergraduate reading audience.

In the implicit case, characterised by the use of ' like ' to connect the two ideas, the simile leaves an audience to determine for themselves which features of the target are being predicated:

For one, several journals appeared, signaling an increasing audience in France to new economic ideas.

The person or group who hires the shill is using crowd psychology, to encourage other onlookers or audience members to purchase the goods or services ( or accept the ideas being marketed ).

The then radical ideas of Luther found a receptive audience.

Little Women ’ s popular audience was responsive to ideas of social change as they were shown “ within the familiar construct of domesticity .” Even though Alcott was supposed to just write a story for girls, her main heroine, Jo March, became a favorite of many different women, including educated women writers through the 20th century.

This is due in part to the diversity of the public audience, and the tendency for scientists to misunderstand lay audiences and therefore not communicate ideas clearly and effectively.

Relativity and ambiguity are prominent ideas in the play, and the audience is challenged to come to conclusions about the ambivalent nature of many of the characters.

The playwright's art also consists in the ability to convey to the audience the ideas that give essence to the drama within the frame of its structure.

Bertolt Brecht coined the term " defamiliarization effect " ( sometimes called " estrangement effect " or " alienation effect "; German Verfremdungseffekt ) for an approach to theater that focused on the central ideas and decisions in the play, and discouraged involving the audience in an illusory world and in the emotions of the characters.

The imprisoned muse Calliope is forced to provide story ideas, a cat seeks to change the world with dreams, Shakespeare puts on a play for an unearthly audience, and a shape-shifting immortal ( obscure DC Comics character Element Girl ) longs for death.

Because of its important social function, Frye felt that literary criticism was an essential part of a liberal education, and worked tirelessly to communicate his ideas to a wider audience.

He used radio broadcasts and founded a national newspaper, the American Progress, to promote his ideas and accomplishments before a national audience.

LATV encourages community members and organizations, educational and business groups with a desire to reach a broader audience to engage with creative ideas for a program or series of programs.

Verbal Behavior is the logical extension of Skinner's ideas, in which he introduced new functional relationship categories such as intraverbals, Autoclitics, mands, tacts and the controlling relationship of the audience.

Performance artists often challenge the audience to think in new and unconventional ways, break conventions of traditional arts, and break down conventional ideas about " what art is ".

* A desire to impress a judge, an examiner, an audience, or a readership, or to win an argument, through name-dropping of esoteric and poorly understood terms in an attempt to inflate trivial ideas to something of importance.

An iconoclast, Jesus broke with established Jewish theological dogmas and social conventions both in his teachings and behaviors, often by turning common-sense ideas upside down, confounding the expectations of his audience: He preached of " Heaven's imperial rule " ( traditionally translated as " Kingdom of God ") as being already present but unseen ; he depicts God as a loving father ; he fraternizes with outsiders and criticizes insiders.

His ideas would reach a wider audience with the publication of Volk ohne Raum by Hans Grimm in 1926, popularizing his concept of lebensraum.