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polemic
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Contemporary art was taken hostage in the operation of the "end of utopias," caught between so-called postmodern discourse, which proclaimed the "end of grand narratives," and the reversal of modernism itself, as modernist thinkers ended up polemicizing against modernism, ultimately condemning emancipatory art's utopias and their contribution to totalitarianism.
I still remember one of my seminary professors polemicizing against the unofficial, but widespread Lutheran Ubertragungslehre, the doctrine of transferring ministry from the people to the pastor.
Four years later, after polemicizing against Franz Joseph, he returned to Italy just as neutrality toward Austria was ending.
 
 
 
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