Even today, the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" resonates with an
antimaterialist message.
(1883, 12) This association of Celticism with a transcendent and hence an
antimaterialist culture, an idea borrowed by Abbey Theatre revivalists and to an extent by Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance, initiates a self-fulfilling binary.
Never mind that the
antimaterialist rhetoric arose as a direct response to an increased material prosperity that was itself a consequence of stupendous advancements in technology and communications under a growing industrial capitalism, or that the rising demand for "high art" emerged as a means to confer respectability and taste on the middle and upper reaches of a society eager to distance itself from the masses.
Clearly enough, a physicalist account of phenomenal properties raises well-known problems, such as that presented by the
antimaterialist versions of the above traditional arguments, or even the problem famously raised by Jackson's (1986) Knowledge Argument.
In an
antimaterialist move, she asserts that "forms" remain dormant unless "some wandering love...
Like so many
antimaterialist arguments, however, his focuses on mental phenomena.
In exploring this connection, I depart from the entrenched critical tendency to highlight an
antimaterialist, anticonventional stance, fuelled by an irreconcilable conflict between the ideal and the real, as the ideological and psychological core of Scapigliatura in general, and Tarchetti's writing in particular.
If 1898 encouraged the emergence of an
antimaterialist intellectual movement in Latin America, it was hardly evident in the discourse of Brazilian-Argentine rapprochement.
But they also influenced western radicals, disappointed in the failures to mobilize among the urban working classes, who turned to
antimaterialist counterculture ideas.
Moore goes on to suggest that because Marlowe disapproves of his hero's antinomian tendencies, he changes the historical record to make Tamburlaine die of illness rather than old age in order to demonstrate the folly of such an
antimaterialist attitude (149).
Axis perversion or rejection of religion had reinforced the NCCJ's commitment to an antisecular,
antimaterialist ideology.