Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft, who has explored the gravity of atoms and the
elective affinities, who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement, namely that like draws to like, and that the goods which belong to you gravitate to you and need not be pursued with pains and cost?
The Daily Beast quoted Spencer saying: "Breitbart has
elective affinities with the Alt Right, and the Alt Right has clearly influenced Breitbart; In this way, Breitbart has acted as a 'gateway' to Alt Right ideas and writers.
That was the same protest about which Donald Trump insisted that there"were very fine people on both sides." The Daily Beast quoted Spencer saying:"Breitbart has
elective affinities with the Alt Right, and the Alt Right has clearly influenced Breitbart ...
Elective Affinities offers an impressive panorama of contemporary German art, featuring 77 artworks by 53 artists, and includes painting, sculptures, photographs, video installations, and a few examples of conceptual art produced from the late 1960s up to the present day.
We find new forms to express the same ancient ideas, and these forms shape our political affiliations, our romantic engagements, our
elective affinities.
Indeed, Lambri's images stray provocatively from the usual documentation of Sun Tunnels, because she understands, through
elective affinities, the transfiguration created by the light that reveals the profound and moving human sense of Holt's work.--Alessandra Pioselli
Either way, Magritte was unable to resist exploiting the similarities between leaf and feather--what he referred to as the '
elective affinities' between formally related objects.
For scholars of Italian modernism this is indeed a serious gap, since Bontempelli was a prolific and influential writer who was not just responsible for introducing and developing the concept of magic realism in an Italian context, but was quite present and well known in the intellectual scene of the 1920s and 1930s, and tied by friendship and
elective affinities to other major literary and artistic figures such as Giorgio De Chirico, Alberto Savinio, and Luigi Pirandello.
In "Socialism and Occultism at the Fin de Siecle:
Elective Affinities," Beaumont mounts a persuasive rebuttal to claims that nineteenth-century theosophists were aligned with a conservative, anti-socialist agenda: "The occult can be shaped by the hope of active social transformation as well as the despondent dream of actively escaping society altogether" (180).
Among his major works as a literary critic are essays on Goethe's novel
Elective Affinities; the work of Franz Kafka and Karl Kraus; translation theory; the stories of Nikolai Leskov; the work of Marcel Proust and perhaps most significantly, the poetry of Charles Baudelaire.