subject-matters

Doubt, Frost/Nixon, and Milk are all films that I feel like I should see for the performances....yet find myself repelled by the subject-matters of each and the agendas I suspect underly the films.

The Oscar nominations. Ann Althouse 2009

His interest in alchemy and astrology influenced his choice of subject-matters.

Archive 2008-12-01 Hermes 2008

Because its main focus is on the subject-matters which different cultural practices address, it offers a model of cognitive engagement that can operate between distinct traditions rather than in just any one.

Gadamer's Aesthetics Davey, Nicholas 2007

Contrary to the Platonic tradition, his argument implies that art adds to the reality of its subject-matters.

Gadamer's Aesthetics Davey, Nicholas 2007

Indeed, subject-matters do not exist apart from the works that manifest their presence.

Gadamer's Aesthetics Davey, Nicholas 2007

Whereas, as we have seen, for Kant the destruction of an artwork has absolutely no bearing upon the objectivities it represents, we can now understand why Gadamer is committed to the opposing view that the destruction of an art work diminishes the reality of the subject-matters that come forth through it.

Gadamer's Aesthetics Davey, Nicholas 2007

To conclude, if aesthetic experience is hermeneutical in that art works speculatively illuminate meanings beyond what is immediately disclosed, hermeneutical experience should equally be taken up by aesthetics in that subject-matters only manifest their presence in the singular and particular.

Gadamer's Aesthetics Davey, Nicholas 2007

The spectator just as much as the artist plays a crucial role in developing the subject-matters that art activates.

Gadamer's Aesthetics Davey, Nicholas 2007

Then knowledge and opinion having distinct powers have also distinct spheres or subject-matters?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

If they are not identified in advance, they are not permitted to testify, and if they do testify they are limited to the subject-matters which have been disclosed in advance.

Experts in creationism trials -- Shallit be? - The Panda's Thumb 2005