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radical (Extreme), adjective absolute, altogether, comprehensive, entire, exhaustive, intensive, maximal, plenary, sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, whole radical (Favoring drastic change), adjective advocattng change, fanatical, freethinking, iconoclastic, insurgent, insurrectionary, militant, mutinous, progressive, rebellious, recusant, revolutionary, ultraist, uncompromising See also: demagogue, drastic, extreme, fanatical, insurgent, malcontent, outrageous, total, unusual, vital How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Likewise, Lawrence Buell's excellent biography, Emerson, helps us see that the philosopher's reputation as a public intellectual, strong poet, and social reformer could not be disentangled from his "religious radicalisms. I've tried to understand her words, her work with students and workers, her rejection of the modish radicalisms of her time, and her search for answers, as perhaps the modern example of a spiritual conscience refusing to be seduced by the common solutions of her day, or frightened from answering its crises. Here we are reminded that the twenty-first-century New York demonstrators--dutifully protesting at their appointed place and time, indeed, at the police department's convenience--are but ghosts of radicalisms past. |
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