As first generation Critical Theorists saw it in the 1940s, this process of reification occurs at two different levels. |
We reject the reification of the poor and seek to make them not objects of our pity but subjects of their own development and agents of change. |
Nietzsche pits intuition, metaphor, and the Dionysian against rationality, conceptual reification, and the Apollonian. |
And in these times of crisis, reification, and dehumanization, I love the possibility of the human being's future vindication. |
The show, which ended its seven-season run in May, began as a reification of the horrors of high school. |
If we make decisions based on our worst fears, rather than a realistic assessment of their likely reification, we are acting out of panic. |