Quotes by : Nicholas Gane

... Protestantism, in its quest for 'rational knowledge' of God's purpose and for an understanding of....

With the rationalization of culture, and the corresponding disenchantment of religious ideas and beliefs,....

In The Inhuman... Lyotard, like Weber, reminds us of the distinction between technological development....

... Lyotard suggests that while discourse operates as a system of representation which defines meanings....

... It is not possible, says Weber, to confer the objective validity of facts on the basis of a value-judgement;....

[Art] acts as 'an instrument allowing us to see through the gaps of dominant ideologies, and the source....

... With the 'death' of God worldly values proliferate, separate out and are drawn into endless conflict....

Science, while of value in so far as it can be used to address and even answer logical or technical questions,....

... In view of the violence of political power responsibility must always prevail. The only possible....

[Concerning postmodernism:] The aim of this experimental history is to disturb the ontological security....