Many of the older generation still cling resentfully to the great traditions, regarding Chomsky and his "epigones" as philistines and vulgarians. ❋ Searle, John R. (1972)
Turn on the news in the past few weeks and it's like reading Trotsky: capitalism in profound crisis; Labour leaders and their 'epigones' (a favourite Trotsky word) locked in internal battle. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Oddly, he seemed to have no problem with Wagner and his epigones, even though I would argue that Wolf, for instance, gets a lot more moment-by-moment ambiguity out of all those augmented triads. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)
The fetishistic medievalism—Breivik seems to have designed a military dress uniform, and wants to wear it to his trial—is significant: Like Osama bin Laden and his epigones, his worldview seems mainly defined by the politics of the 13th century. ❋ Bret Stephens (2011)
In my opinion, however, it is precisely because literature is made from a medium so thorougly tied to modes of conventional discourse and ordinary communication that the creation of genuine art using such a medium should especially be acknowledged and allowed a certain degree of independence from the kind of "social and moral" criticism favored by Irving Howe and his current epigones. ❋ Unknown (2010)
To him, as a biologist, the form-giving of the specific life process was the primary paradigm of a finalistic process, but for his epigones the order of the universe and the trend toward its perfection became completely dominant. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Attend a creative writing workshop or open a magazine of short stories nowadays and the chances are you will encounter one of Carver's numberless epigones. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If we include the spectacles and Flash Gordon epigones that grace the silver screen also to be SF, however (what we hard SF fans call "Pulp") I would add a whole list of SF films that are good and worthy members of the SF pantheon -- as pulp. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The bigger problem may have been that Marshall, the very model of the correct and dedicated public servant, had no Nigerian epigones, only self-centered indigenous leaders with no ambition to serve the national interest. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Of course, there are plenty of literary writers who are proudly outside the academy Bukowski and his epigones and plenty of SF writers in the academy, lots of very prolific “literary” writers and bunches of SF writers slow to publish. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Warraq further looks at the destructive influence of Said's study on the history of Western painting, especially of the 19th century, and shows how, once again, the epigones of Said have succeeded in relegating thousands of first-class paintings to the lofts and storage rooms of major museums. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But while undoubtedly he is the most cretinous in this lot of sectarians, Richard Williamson has his epigones. ❋ Edward T. Oakes, S.J. (2009)
During two hot periods of the four decades of cold war devoted to stopping Stalin and his epigones, 100,000 Americans gave their lives fighting to a draw in Korea and failing to stop the Communist takeover of Vietnam. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Note that although the historical majority of these latter are the epigones of one or another religion, they also include the followers of such ideologies as Marxism and Stalinism – which are also all-embracing monolithic ownerships of the Great Truth to which everyone must sign up on pain of punishment, and on whose behalf their zealots are prepared to kill and die. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They did not remain long the over-endowed heirs and epigones of the entire Orient. ❋ Unknown (2007)
We cannot do this by being antiquarians and epigones -- we cannot deal with the post-Flood "chaos" by seeking refuge in the distant past, going through the motions and speculating about what "could have been". ❋ Unknown (2007)
As though it needed repeating, President Bush and his epigones were convinced that Hussein either had or was about to obtain weapons of mass destruction and, as the reasoning went, a pre-emptive strike was essential to national security. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As Maureen Dowd recently wrote, Bush and his epigones bet the farm on Iraq. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It could be argued that the entire fantasy genre is made up of epigones of Tolkien. ❋ Jaime Theler (2008)
