In other words, if such concepts were practiced by businesses or housing co-ops or communes, I think this is effective in the sense that individuals are creating the social relationships they want to see in the new world, one example of many what might be called prefigurative politics. ❋ Alex Bradshaw (2010)
In doing so, we are following a process known as prefigurative politics - or as Obama supporters might say, we are seeking to "be the change" that we envision for the world. ❋ Campus Notes (2010)
For revolutionary syndicalists, the development of a mass workers movement where the organizations and struggles are "self-managed" by the workers themselves is "prefigurative" of a society self-managed by the working class. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The old Ark of the Covenant is a prefigurative type of Mary—it was considered by the Israelites as a very holy object, something so holy that no one could touch it! ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)
Though the Bible from Philo Judaeus and Augustine on needs exegetical glossing, it remains the Word of God, the Old linked to the New through prefigurative typology. ❋ FRANCIS LEE UTLEY (1968)
She, that would not suffer at his birth even a prefigurative or mimic degradation for her awful ward, far less could be supposed to suffer the real degradation attaching to the non-development of his powers. ❋ Various (N/A)
Passion, as containing Christ crucified; consequently it could not be instituted before the Incarnation; but then there was room for only such sacraments as were prefigurative of the Lord's Passion. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
Let us whose souls were sealed with the blood of Christ in the day of redemption, with spiritual exultation, prophetically, draw the holy blood that is flowing unto us from the source of martyrdom, and is prefigurative both of the life-bringing passion of the Saviour and of the eternal glory; let us therefore cry unto Him: Thou that art glorified in thy saints, O ❋ Anonymous (1899)
Like all the cottagers in Blackmoor Vale, Tess was steeped in fancies and prefigurative superstitions; she thought this an ill omen -- the first she had noticed that day. ❋ Unknown (1891)
At that time Mithridates is said to have had a dream prefigurative of what was to befall him. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1884)
Vale, Tess was steeped in fancies and prefigurative superstitions; she thought this an ill omen -- the first she had noticed that day. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
Humbling himself, as the bearer merely of a prefigurative baptism, he pointed to the mightier One who should baptize with the Spirit, who already stood, unrecognized, in their midst. ❋ 1789-1850 (1870)
She that would not suffer at his birth even a prefigurative or mimic degradation for her awful ward, far less could be supposed to suffer the real degradation attaching to the non-development of his powers. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
Another protester told The New Republic that policy proposals are premature, because first the protesters must use "a radical, open, transformative, prefigurative democratic space to explore the possible." ❋ JOSH BARRO (2011)
I think this leads him to misunderstand "prefigurative politics." ❋ Unknown (2010)
We stand behind a radical prefigurative politics - that is, that we must strive to put our ideals into practice in our own lives as we participate in struggles toward a society free of oppressive systems. ❋ Anonn (2010)
Elsewhere in the 'periphery', too, populations most gravely damaged by the depredations of ecological and economic imperialism are resisting and also developing prefigurative alternatives. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Uri Gordon explains that prefigurative politics implies that "[t] he effort to create and develop horizontal functioning in any collective action setting, and to maintain a constant awareness of interpersonal dynamics and the way in which they might reflect social patterns of exclusion, are accorded just as much importance as planning and carrying out campaigns, projects and actions." ❋ Campus Notes (2010)
